Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that pecks, as a bird's bill.
- n. Chiefly British Slang Courage; pluck.
- n. Vulgar Slang The penis.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which pecks, picks, or hacks; especially, a bird that pecks, as in the compounds nutpecker, oxpecker, woodpecker, flower-pecker.
- n. A picker or pickax.
- n. In weaving, the picker of a loom; the shuttle-driver.
- n. In telegraphy, a relay. Earlier forms of this apparatus pecked like a bird: hence the name.
- n. Courage; spirits; good cheer.
Wiktionary
- n. Anything that pecks, such as a bird, or the bill of a bird.
- n. Woodpecker.
- n. slang The penis.
- n. chiefly UK, slang The mouth
- n. chiefly UK Spirits, nerve, courage.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who, or that which, pecks; specif., a bird that pecks holes in trees; a woodpecker.
- n. An instrument for pecking; a pick.
- n. The penis; -- an obscene term for the male sexual organ.
WordNet 3.0
- n. bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects
- n. obscene terms for penis
- n. horny projecting mouth of a bird
Etymologies
- to peck + -er. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I suspect the pecker is just fine minus a lost clutch of eggs.”
“Unthinking obedience to a line of bullshit because your pecker is so small you have to make up for it in other ways.”
“T R L Says: yeah rite yoo I bet you were gettin that veinna sausage you call a pecker a chubby writeing that bullshyt zuch Says:”
“The rice was then cut with the sickle and carried in on the head, then threshed with the flail, then milled and dressed, in some cases wholly by human labor, and in others by a rude machine, called a pecker mill.”
“He told her that a pecker is another name for a winky.”
“So I've never been quite convinced that there wasn't some kind of early, dirty meaning of "pecker" that he might have been aware of.”
“According to an article about double entendres, (intentional and otherwise) in great literature that ran in Playboy about 40 years ago, "pecker" in British slang meant "lips" or "mouth" (cf: "give a peck on the cheek").”
“Black Wood pecker which is found in most parts of the rocky Mountains as will as the Western and S W. mountains, I had never an oppertunity of examineing, untill a fiew days Since when we killed and preserved”
“To make it easier on amps and antennas, I recommend tuning up with a "pecker" unit.”
“A good model to shoot for is the type of person someone would call a "pecker" but NOT a "peckerwood.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pecker’.
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®emovies
Movies or TV shows where the titles are also common words, generally one-word titles.
lost, alien, bug, elephant, siege, gladiator, flock, captivity, piano, roots, freaks, moonstruck and 269 more...
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UK - slang
chin wag, arse about, bollock, starkers, sweet Fanny Adams, skive, shufti, codswallop, rhyming slang, bollocks, nookie, skew-whiff and 208 more...
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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You animal!
Names of animals that are also used to describe kinds of people. Nouns only, preferably single word.
For a related list, see sionnach's beastly verbs.rabbit, shark, hog, pussycat, bear, bull, skunk, hawk, wildcat, buck, slug, heifer and 112 more...
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The Penis Game
Euphemisms for the penis.
See also:
A Testicle by Any Other Name
Ward, I'm worried about the beavermale interfemoral..., penis, dick, cock, prick, willy, percy, peter, one-eyed trouser ..., piece of pork, wife's best friend, dong and 79 more...
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ShuckFinn's Words
abecedarian, conflate, mondegreen, whit, truculent, downright, pugnacious, effluvium, canker, inveigle, obfuscate, melancholy and 227 more...
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Why We Curse: WTF?
This list collects the magnificent collection of vocabulary of the article "What the F***? Why We Curse," by Steven Pinker, in The New Republic (Oct. 2007). I think I'm more impressed with the coll...
curse, language, earthy, ancient, unthinkable, thinkable, emotional, rhyme, meter, alliteration, pleasure, metaphor and 196 more...
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P is for Porch Dog
My P Words
paddington, paddy wagon, paddy whack, paddywhack, paisano, pandemonium, pantaloon, pantaloons, paper tiger, papoose, parachute pants, parcel and 109 more...
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OED2 Quotations: Kurt Vonnegut
A list of the OED citations from an author is often a highly accurate distillation of that author's work. All Vonnegut's favourite themes are here: technology (industrial, space, radio, tube), zani...
tube, penis, zap, whang, trifocal, snootful, potch, pecker, nose, fire, string, monkey and 7 more...
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Have you met Dick?
Euphemisms for "penis". my inner 12 year old still finds them funny. suggestions welcome! i'm looking for single words only, 2 maximum. words that most people recognize and may also be used to desc...
euphemism, dick, cock, wang, stiffy, wood, chubby, turtle, schlong, willy, pecker, johnson and 21 more...
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Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Words from a 1999 'Girl, Interrupted' film.
top-notch, stunt, demise, bum, pecker, laxative, rotisserie, lifer, borderline, fatso, loon, dyke and 25 more...
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