Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that pecks, as a bird's bill.
- noun Vulgar Slang The penis.
- noun Chiefly British Slang Courage; pluck.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which pecks, picks, or hacks; especially, a bird that pecks, as in the compounds nutpecker, oxpecker, woodpecker, flower-pecker.
- noun A picker or pickax.
- noun In weaving, the picker of a loom; the shuttle-driver.
- noun In telegraphy, a relay. Earlier forms of this apparatus pecked like a bird: hence the name.
- noun Courage; spirits; good cheer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, pecks; specif., a bird that pecks holes in trees; a woodpecker.
- noun An instrument for pecking; a pick.
- noun The penis; -- an obscene term for the male sexual organ.
- noun (Zoöl.) See under
Flower .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Anything that
pecks , such as a bird, or thebill of a bird. - noun
Woodpecker . - noun slang The
penis . - noun chiefly UK, slang The
mouth - noun chiefly UK
Spirits ,nerve ,courage .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects
- noun obscene terms for penis
- noun horny projecting mouth of a bird
Etymologies
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to peck + -er.
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