Peck

Quick meaning: Peck is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird).

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird).

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.
2. To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements.
3. To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.
4. To do something in small, intermittent pieces.
5. To type by searching for each key individually.
6. To kiss briefly.
7. (rare) To type in general.

Example Sentences

to peck a hole in a tree

The birds pecked at their food.

This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons peas.

He has been pecking away at that project for some time now.

Word Forms

• pecks
• pecking
• pecked

Synonyms for peck

Depending on context, synonyms include fling, hurl, bung, cast, chuck, chunk.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include beak, flock, batch, pot, hatful, stack.

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