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

1. noun. The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat.
2. noun. A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
3. verb. To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree.
4. verb. Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc., with repeated quick movements.
5. verb. To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; -- often with up.
6. verb. To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree.
7. intransitive verb. To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument.
8. intransitive verb. To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat.
9. noun. A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument.
10. noun. a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches
11. noun. a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons
12. noun. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

    "a batch of letters"

    "a deal of trouble"

    Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle

13. verb. bother persistently with trivial complaints

    "She nags her husband all day long"

    Synonyms: nag

14. verb. eat like a bird

    "The anorexic girl just picks at her food"

15. verb. eat by pecking at, like a bird
16. verb. hit lightly with a picking motion

    Synonyms: beak, pick

17. verb. kiss lightly

    Synonyms: smack

Synonyms

batch, deal, flock, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, pile, plenty, pot, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, wad, nag, beak

Common word forms

pecks, pecked, pecker, peckly, peckful, pecking

Words from these letters

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