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pecker
- /ˈpɛkə(ɹ)/
Rhymes with -ɛkə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From Middle English pekker, equivalent to peck (“to pick at something in the manner of a bird”) + -er (“forming agent nouns”).
noun peckers
- Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly Two studies of British civil servants, for example, suggest that those at the top of the heap are less stressed than those near the bottom. Work on other species, too, indicates that when it comes to pecking orders, the peckees are more stressed than the peckers.
- Any tool used in a pecking fashion, particularly kinds of hoes or pickaxes. The women with short peckers or parers,... of a foote long and about fiue inches in breadth: doe onely breake the vpper part of the ground to rayse vp the weedes, grasse, & old stubbes of corne stalkes with their rootes... For their corne,... with a pecker they make a hole, wherein they put foure gr
- Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion, particularly The upper end of the finger o carries a "pecker" p, which consists of a hardened steel piece with a V edge. This pecker is engaged by any one of several steps or notches in a stepped block m carried by the rocking lever l.
- A picker, a shuttle-driver: the device which moves backwards and forwards in the shuttle-box to drive the shuttle through the warp. The shuttle... receives its motion from the peckers connected with cords pulled by the pecking lever.
- A kind of V-shaped telegraphic relay. Click, click, click, the pecker is at work.
- Clipping of pecker mill, a rice mill. Rice mills, called pecker, cog, and water mills... The first... so called, from the pestle's striking... in the manner of a wood pecker.
- A bird, particularly a member of the group including the woodpeckers, flowerpeckers, oxpeckers, and berrypeckers. The Titmouse, and the Peckers hungry Brood.
- Clipping of woodpecker (Picidae). The pecker was esteemed a sacred and divine bird.
- An eater, a diner. He's a rare pecker.
- A bird's beak. Pecker, a bird's bill
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A penis; cock, dick.
The penis... pecker.
Similar: penis
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A nose.
Similar: nose
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Spirits, nerve, courage.
Mr. King... misstated the fact in saying that he had put a piece of lighted paper to the master's nose while asleep in that house; it was his hot pipe that he applied to the sleeper's nostrils, at the same time crying: Come, old chap, keep your pecker up.
Similar: courage
- Short for peckerwood ("whitey; white trash") These peckers know that as well as me.
- Short for peckerhead ("dickhead; an aggressive or objectionable idiot"). Goddammit! I give you peckers an inch and you automatically take a mile […]
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Clipping of peckerhead (“an electric motor's junction or terminal connection box, where power cords are connected to the winding leads”).
Similar: pothead
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noun someone who or something that pecks
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title = {pecker},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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