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peck
Found in thesaurus: large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount, imperial capacity unit, british capacity unit, united states dry unit, strike, eat, osculate, kiss, buss, complain, quetch, sound off, plain, kick, kvetch
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peck
v.
strike with a beak or pointed tool; dig, gouge
n.
gouge, hole; strike of a beak or other pointed tool
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Peck
A peck is an imperial and United States customary unit of dry volume, equivalent to 2 gallons or 8 dry quarts or 16 dry pints (9.09 (UK) or 8.81 (US) liters). Two pecks make a kenning (obsolete), and four pecks make a bushel. Although the peck is no longer widely used, some produce, such as apples, is still often sold by the peck. Despite being referenced in a common tongue twister, pickled peppers are so rarely sold by the peck that any association between pickled peppers and the peck unit of measurement is considered humorous in nature.
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peck
Noun
1. (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"
(synonym) batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew
(hypernym) large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount
(hyponym) flood, inundation, deluge, torrent
2. a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons
(hypernym) British capacity unit, Imperial capacity unit
(part-holonym) bushel
3. a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches
(hypernym) United States dry unit
(part-holonym) bushel
(part-meronym) quart, dry quart
Verb
1. hit lightly with a picking motion
(synonym) pick, beak
(hypernym) strike
(derivation) beak, bill, neb, nib, pecker
2. eat by pecking at, like a bird
(synonym) pick up
(hypernym) eat
(derivation) beak, bill, neb, nib, pecker
3. kiss lightly
(synonym) smack
(hypernym) kiss, buss, osculate
4. eat like a bird; "The anorexic girl just picks at her food"
(synonym) pick at, peck at
(hypernym) eat
5. bother persistently with trivial complaints; "She nags her husband all day long"
(synonym) nag, hen-peck
(hypernym) complain, kick, plain, sound off, quetch, kvetch
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peck
v.
zobat; klovat; letmo políbit
n.
letmý polibek
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peck
Czas.
dziobać; cmoknąć
Rzecz.
dziobnięcie; cmoknięcie
