Dictionary Entry
peck
peck is a 4-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, verb, and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 17 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat.
- 2noun
A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
- 3verb
To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree.
- 4verb
Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc., with repeated quick movements.
- 5verb
To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; -- often with up.
- 6verb
To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree.
- 7intransitive verb
To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument.
- 8intransitive verb
To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat.
- 9noun
A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument.
- 10noun
a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches
- 11noun
a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons
- 12noun
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
"a batch of letters"
"a deal of trouble"
- 13verb
bother persistently with trivial complaints
"She nags her husband all day long"
Synonyms
- 14verb
eat like a bird
"The anorexic girl just picks at her food"
- 15verb
eat by pecking at, like a bird
- 16verb
hit lightly with a picking motion
- 17verb
kiss lightly
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