Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small Chinese tree (Prunus persica) widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
- n. The soft juicy fruit of this tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured stone containing a single seed.
- n. A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange.
- n. Informal A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
- v. To inform on someone; turn informer: "Middle-level bureaucrats cravenly peach on their bosses [when] one of them does something the tiniest bit illegal” ( National Observer).
- v. To inform against: "He has peached me and all the others, to save his life” ( Daniel Defoe).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The fleshy drupaceous fruit of the tree Prunus Persica.
- n. A garden and orchard tree, Prunus (Amygdalus) Persica. The peach is a rather weak irregular tree, 15 or 20 feet high, with shining lanceolate leaves, and pink flowers (see cut under
calyciflorate ) appearing before the leaves. The roundish or elliptical fruit is 2 or 3 inches in diameter, and covered with down; when ripe, the color is whitish or yellow, beautifully flushed with red; its flesh is subacid, luscious, and wholesome. The peach is closely allied to the almond, from which Darwin inclines to derive it. Its local origin has commonly been ascribed to Persia, but the investigations of De Candolle point to China. It is now widely cultivated in warm-temperate climates, most successfully in China and the United States, as in Delaware, on the shores of the Chesapeake and Lake Michigan, and in California. (Seecurl , 4, peach-blight, and peach-yellows.) The canning of peaches is now a large local industry; large quantities also are dried, and some are made into peach-brandy. The seeds often take the place of bitter almonds as a source of oil, etc. Peach-leaves and -flowers we laxative and anthelmintic. The varieties of the peach are numberless, a general distinction lying between clingstones and freestones (see these words), and again between the white- and the yellow-fleshed. (Seenectarine .) The flat peach or peento is a fancy Chinese variety, having the fruit so compressed that only the skin covers the ends of the stone. Another Chinese variety, the crooked peach, has the fruit long and bent, and remarkably sweet. In ornamental use there is a weeping peach; and various dwarf and double-flowered varieties, calledflowering peaches , have been produced with pure white or variously, often very brilliantly, colored flowers. - To impeach; also, to inform against, as an accomplice.
- To betray one's accomplices; turn informer.
- n. In mining, any greenish-colored soft or decomposed rock, usually chloritic schist.
- n. A stove.
- n. A person or thing of a very high order; one who or that which is very nice.
- n. In Sierra Leone, the Guinea peach, Sarcocephalus sambucinus. See Sarcocephalus.
Wiktionary
- v. intransitive, obsolete To inform on someone; turn informer.
- v. transitive, obsolete To inform against.
- n. A tree (Prunus persica), native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
- n. The soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed.
- n. A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color.
- n. informal A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
- n. The large, edible berry of the Sarcocephalus esculentus, a rubiaceous climbing shrub of west tropical Africa.
- adj. colour Of the color peach.
- adj. Particularly pleasing or agreeable.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To accuse of crime; to inform against.
- v. Obs. or Colloq. To turn informer; to betray one's accomplice.
- n. (Bot.) A well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone. In the wild stock the fruit is hard and inedible.
- n. The tree (Prunus Persica syn. Amygdalus Persica) which bears the peach fruit.
- n. The pale red color of the peach blossom, or the light pinkish yellow of the peach fruit.
WordNet 3.0
- v. divulge confidential information or secrets
- n. downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh
- n. a shade of pink tinged with yellow
- n. cultivated in temperate regions
- n. a very attractive or seductive looking woman
Etymologies
- Middle English peche, from Old French pesche (French: pêche) from Medieval Latin pesca, from Vulgar Latin pessica from Classical Latin persica, from malum persicum ("Persian apple"), from Ancient Greek μῆλον περσικόν. See Perse. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English peche, from Old French, a peach, from Latin persica, peach tree, from Greek persikē, from feminine of Persikos, Persian; see perse.Middle English pechen, from apechen, to accuse (probably from Anglo-Norman *anpecher, from Late Latin impedicāre, to entangle; see impeach) and from empechen, to accuse; see impeach. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I just had a fresh peach for the first time last summer and holy god, the peach is an earthly delight.”
“To me the peach is the queen, the Koh-i-noor, the Cotopaxi, the Angkor Wat, the Bach unaccompanied cello suites of fruit.”
“When a peach is at its most sublime, it needs a plate to catch the juice, though I often forget.”
“The delicious and versatile peach is a natural for preserves and baked goods, and they are available in abundance to be sampled at this fair.”
“I love making homemade ice cream - peach is great!”
“A figure in peach chiffon moves in front of the band, her black hair pomaded and held with rhinestone combs in an up-do, red painted lips taking up space in a broad, coffee-colored face.”
“The peach is a little overwhelming actually, with only a little berry scent beneath that is barely recognizable as raspberry.”
“Because of this white peach from the Asian Market down the street?”
“October 25th, 2006 at 7: 53 am dude, peach is a boy in the nintendo family pic the sex one was pretty original though, weird but original samy Says:”
“The peach is the claim that green causes less eye strain than other colours which is why we find the countryside so relaxing!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘peach’.
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CULI - wine-tasting adjectives
In this area of expertise nouns are frequently used as adjectives (almond, bacon, cider, diesel, fennel, fresh-cut hay, wool) or new adjectives are formed (appley, berrylike, citrusy, full-bodied, ...
acetic, acidic, aged, angular, appley, astringent, attractive, austere, berrylike, big, bitter, brawny and 511 more...
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Public List: Two by Fives
This is an experiment in public lists--something I've been thinking about for some time. The goal is to create a collection of short, powerful, evocative words.
This is an open list. A...icy, howl, hymn, thorn, fire, vile, mist, blunt, scum, dark, shot, gleam and 221 more...
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Uncommon Colours
azure, myrtle, periwinkle, viridian, jade, emerald, lime, chartreuse, asparagus, celadon, harlequin, olive and 147 more...
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Mother-of-All-Saints
Some alternatives to calling it your 'stuff'.
Mount of Venus, nameless, name-it-not, omnibus, the novelty, niche, nest, moss-rose, peach, old-ding, old woman, the nonsuch and 115 more...
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Oranges
amber, apricot, carrot, brown, burnt, gamboge, peach, pumpkin, safety, tangerine, tawny, tenne and 2 more...
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Colour Me Happy
violet, lavender, rose, eggshell, mauve, fuschia, grey, azure, almond, sienna, purple, periwinkle and 71 more...
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Orange
amber, apricot, carrot, burnt, papaya, flame, persimmon, peach, rust, tangerine, tangelo, sunset
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Lord of the Pies
Pastry words anyone?
crust, starry gazey pie, oven, pan, apple, blueberry, rhubarb, key lime, pumpkin, dough, flour, cherpumple and 17 more...
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Clapping games
When I was a kid, my friends and I would play these games that had specific rhymes and songs and patterns of clapping. Even now, all it takes for me to remember a whole song is just that first line...
Zing, zing, zing., Down, down, baby,..., Say, say, oh play..., Miss Mary Mack, M..., pat-a-cake, cellar door, playmate, dollies three, jolly friends, Liberace, roller coaster, piece of chewing gum and 2 more...
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Gas-Inducing Foodstuffs
Foods that produce flatulence. List title a shameless filching of a fortuitous phrase yarb introduced in his definition of scotch egg. I know everyone has a few foods they avoid at certain times ...
scotch egg, cabbage, chili beans, garbanzo beans, chickpeas, hummus, pickled eggs, rutabaga, radish, jerusalem artichoke, brussels sprouts, cauliflower and 42 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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capitalcreative's Words
deviltry, visceral, cassanova, assuage, genesis, hot minute, osmosis, wistful, sublime, loathe, farfetched, newfangled and 283 more...
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ninjaeface's list
dang! i like these.
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Colors
Words for colors, including things so associated with a color that they can be used in reference to a color.
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, purple, navy, lavender, turquoise, chartreuse and 218 more...
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him and i
peach, left, alone, abandon, horid, gay, bloody, beautiful, outside, inside, confused, unconditional and 111 more...
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Flutter
tuberose, golden apple, apple cider, unicorn, extraordinary, Pleiades, Merope, speckle, glitter, rose, pitter-pat, whale and 314 more...
Tweets
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michaelt42 Today I heard a neat play in an exchange on Desert Island Discs (BBC Radio 4) between Sir David Attenborough and Miss Kirsty Young. KY suggested that DA was unimpeachable: DA countered by saying that he was very peachable if you knew how. Both individuals are peaches, of course. Feb 3, 2012
hernesheir "Gardeners often fight shy of growing peaches, probably because they have seen the infinite patience and care expended on them under glass, with rabbit's tail and knife, pollinating and deshooting, to tying in and cutting out. "Grow Your Own Peaches", by one Jeffrey M. Boatfield, Kent, in The Countryman, August 1955, p.132. Nov 6, 2009
the_grene_kni3t "Peach" is a good word as a fruit, but I like it far better as a verb meaning "to squeal."
"Ikey has peached, and the game is up."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone" Dec 29, 2006