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Defenition of the word peck

    • Defenition of the word peck

      • An Imperial unit of dry volume equal to eight dry quarts.
      • To bother persistently with trivial complaints.
      • A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons.
      • To kiss lightly.
      • (For a bird) To eat by small pieces with one's beak or bill.
      • To eat by small pieces like a bird.
      • To hit lightly with a picking motion.
      • (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent: "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "it must have cost plenty"
      • bother persistently with trivial complaints; "She nags her husband all day long"
      • a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches
      • a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons
      • hit lightly with a picking motion
      • eat by pecking at; of birds
      • eat like a bird
      • kiss lightly
      • (often followed by `of'') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty"
      • eat like a bird; "The anorexic girl just picks at her food"
      • eat by pecking at, like a bird
      • (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
      • bother persistently with trivial complaints

    Synonyms for the word peck

      • batch
      • beak
      • deal
      • flock
      • good deal
      • great deal
      • hatful
      • heap
      • hen-peck
      • lot
      • mass
      • mess
      • mickle
      • mint
      • muckle
      • nag
      • peck at
      • pick
      • pick at
      • pick up
      • pile
      • plenty
      • pot
      • quite a little
      • raft
      • sight
      • slew
      • smack
      • spate
      • stack
      • tidy sum
      • wad
      • whole lot
      • whole slew

    Meronymys for the word peck

      • bushel
      • dry quart
      • quart

    Hyponyms for the word peck

      • deluge
      • flood
      • haymow
      • inundation
      • torrent

    Hypernyms for the word peck

      • British capacity unit
      • buss
      • complain
      • eat
      • Imperial capacity unit
      • kick
      • kiss
      • kvetch
      • large indefinite amount
      • large indefinite quantity
      • osculate
      • plain
      • quetch
      • snog
      • sound off
      • strike
      • surname
      • United States dry unit

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