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pecker
  1. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly:
    1. (uncommon or regional) Any tool used in a pecking fashion, particularly kinds of hoes or pickaxes.
    2. (uncommon) Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion, particularly:
    3. (zoology) A bird, particularly a member of the group of birds including the berrypeckers, flowerpeckers, and woodpeckers.
    4. (Britain regional, obsolete) An eater, a diner.
    5. (Britain regional) A bird's beak or bill.
    6. (chiefly US, regional, slang) Cock, dick; a penis.
  2. (beak) A nose.
  3. (keep one's pecker up) Spirits, nerve, courage.
  4. (pejorative) Short for peckerwood ("whitey; white trash")
  5. (pejorative) Short for peckerhead ("dickhead; an aggressive or objectionable idiot").
  6. (US) Clipping of pecker head ("an electric motor's junction or terminal connection box, where power cords are connected to the winding leads").
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  8. Examples:
    1. “Come, old chap, keep your pecker up.”
      “Regardless of the type of motor, the electrical connections are made inside the pecker.”
      “She wondered if her mother took narcotics so as not to face up to which body the pecker really wanted.”
peckerwood
  1. (Southern US, slang) A woodpecker.
  2. (Southern US) A peckerwood sawmill.
  3. (offensive) A white person, especially a Southerner, or one who is ignorant, rustic, or bigoted.
  4. (prison slang) A white (male) inmate, especially one who is racist or who is a member of a race-based prison gang.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “When I was a boy, I rooted over an old dead sourwood to get some peckerwood eggs.”
      “The Langdale Company's new centralized sawmill and debarker in 1958 constituted a tremendous advance over the old peckerwood technology.”
      “Just as prejudiced as a Mississippi peckerwood when it comes to colored people.”
pecking
  1. The act by which something is pecked.
  2. The ancient skill of shaping stone into tools, containers, or artworks.
peck
  1. One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts.
  2. A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “A shrieking mob of common terns rose angrily above him, each swooping down to give him an angry peck to the pate of his exposed head.”
      “She then gave me a quick peck on the cheek as she said goodbye.”
      “I'm in a peck of trouble, and I've got to hide.”
peck
  1. An act of pecking.
  2. A small kiss.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “A shrieking mob of common terns rose angrily above him, each swooping down to give him an angry peck to the pate of his exposed head.”
      “She then gave me a quick peck on the cheek as she said goodbye.”
      “I'm in a peck of trouble, and I've got to hide.”
peckerhead
  1. (US) An electric motor's terminal connection or wiring box.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Regardless of the type of motor, the electrical connections are made inside the peckerhead.”
      “Why shouldn't Carmellini do something a wee bit nasty to keep that miserable peckerhead felon from enjoying the fruits of his ill gotten gains?”
      “Felix Barlow, the peckerhead shyster who calls himself my lawyer, will administer the treasure hunt, but once it begins, you'll be on your own.”
peck
  1. Discoloration caused by fungus growth or insects.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “A shrieking mob of common terns rose angrily above him, each swooping down to give him an angry peck to the pate of his exposed head.”
      “She then gave me a quick peck on the cheek as she said goodbye.”
      “I'm in a peck of trouble, and I've got to hide.”
pecke
  1. Obsolete form of peck. (dry measure)
peck
  1. Misspelling of pec.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “A shrieking mob of common terns rose angrily above him, each swooping down to give him an angry peck to the pate of his exposed head.”
      “She then gave me a quick peck on the cheek as she said goodbye.”
      “I'm in a peck of trouble, and I've got to hide.”
peckerwoods
peckerheads
peckings
  1. plural of pecking
peckers
  1. plural of pecker
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Wood peckers, herons, tawny owls and wood warblers are common in the area.”
      “By far the greater number of modern birds belong to the... orders of the perchers, the peckers, and the birds of prey.”
peckes
  1. plural of pecke
pecks
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