ENGLISH: peck - CREOLE: beke



Overview of noun peck



The noun peck has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts)



1. batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew -- ((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")

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

3. peck -- (a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches)



Overview of verb peck



The verb peck has 5 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)



1. (3) peck, pick, beak -- (hit lightly with a picking motion)

2. (1) peck, pick up -- (eat by pecking at, like a bird)

3. smack, peck -- (kiss lightly)

4. pick at, peck at, peck -- (eat like a bird; "The anorexic girl just picks at her food")

5. nag, peck, hen-peck -- (bother persistently with trivial complaints; "She nags her husband all day long")

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