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peck

/pɛk/noun, verb1 syllable

Peck means: (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent.

Synonyms for peck44

noun, as in (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent

batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle
and 12 more, passel, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad

verb, as in hit lightly with a picking motion

pick, beak

verb, as in eat like a bird

pick at, peck at

verb, as in bother persistently with trivial complaints

nag, hen-peck

verb, as in eat by pecking at, like a bird

pick up

verb, as in kiss lightly

smack

also used for peck

fling, hurl, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, dash, dump, feck

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What does peck mean?10

noun

1

(often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent“a batch of letters”

2

a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons

3

a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches

4

a light kiss

5

bite by a bird

verb

1

hit lightly with a picking motion

2

eat like a bird“The anorexic girl just picks at her food”

3

bother persistently with trivial complaints“She nags her husband all day long”

4

eat by pecking at, like a bird

5

kiss lightly

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with peck?16

two syllables

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Peck in a sentence

  • Don't touch the birds, they might fly away or peck.Amastan
  • She gave me a peck on the cheek.CM
  • Woodpeckers peck tree trunks with their long pointed beaks and eat insects found there.unknown
  • He gave her a peck on the cheek.LittleBoy
  • Raise crows and they'll peck your eyes out.Jesse
  • Vladimir gave Anna a quick peck on her lips and that made her blush.Amastan
  • Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.Bernie75
  • One crow doesn't peck another's eye.FeuDRenais

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Forms of peck

as a noun

plural
pecks

as a verb

past tense
pecked
present participle
pecking
third-person singular
pecks
past participle
pecked