Meaning

11 senses
  1. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly

  2. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill

    (regional, uncommon)Any tool used in a pecking fashion, particularly kinds of hoes or pickaxes.

  3. (uncommon)Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion, particularly

  4. Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion

    (historical, uncommon)A kind of V-shaped telegraphic relay.

  5. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill

    A bird, particularly a member of the group including the woodpeckers, flowerpeckers, oxpeckers, and berrypeckers.

  6. (UK, regional)A bird's beak.

    horny projecting mouth of a bird

  7. (US, regional, slang)A penis; cock, dick.

    obscene terms for penis

  8. (UK, broadly, colloquial)A nose.

  9. (UK, broadly, colloquial)Spirits, nerve, courage.

  10. Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion

    (obsolete, uncommon)A picker, a shuttle-driver: the device which moves backwards and forwards in the shuttle-box to drive the shuttle through the warp.

  11. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill

    (UK, obsolete, regional)An eater, a diner.

Translations

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By meaning 1
someone who or something that pecks:

Origin

From Middle English pekker, equivalent to peck (“to pick at something in the manner of a b

From Middle English pekker, equivalent to peck (“to pick at something in the manner of a bird”) + -er (“forming agent nouns”).

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Forms

plural: peckers
Singularpecker
Pluralpeckers

regular

Synonyms

17 synonyms
nose:noseA1
courage:courageB1
penis:penis
Close in meaning

Word family

20 related words

See also

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