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pecker.

Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈpɛkə(ɹ)/
  1. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly

  2. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill Any tool used in a pecking fashion, particularly kinds of hoes or pickaxes.

    regional · uncommon
  3. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion, particularly

    uncommon
  4. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion A picker, a shuttle-driver: the device which moves backwards and forwards in the shuttle-box to drive the shuttle through the warp.

    obsolete · uncommon
  5. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion A kind of V-shaped telegraphic relay.

    historical · uncommon
  6. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion Clipping of pecker mill, a rice mill.

    US · abbreviation · alt-of · clipping · historical · regional · uncommon
  7. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill A bird, particularly a member of the group including the woodpeckers, flowerpeckers, oxpeckers, and berrypeckers.

  8. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill A bird, particularly a member of the group including the woodpeckers, flowerpeckers, oxpeckers, and berrypeckers. Clipping of woodpecker (Picidae).

    US · abbreviation · alt-of · clipping · colloquial · regional · usually
  9. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill An eater, a diner.

    UK · obsolete · regional
  10. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill A bird's beak.

    UK · regional
  11. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill A penis; cock, dick.

    US · regional · slang
  12. A nose.

    UK · broadly · colloquial
  13. Spirits, nerve, courage.

    UK · broadly · colloquial
  14. Short for peckerwood ("whitey; white trash")

    abbreviation · alt-of · derogatory · in-plural · slang
  15. Short for peckerhead ("dickhead; an aggressive or objectionable idiot").

    abbreviation · alt-of · derogatory · in-plural · slang
  16. Clipping of peckerhead (“an electric motor's junction or terminal connection box, where power cords are connected to the winding leads”).

    US · abbreviation · alt-of · clipping
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *pikkōną Proto-West Germanic *pikkōn Old English *piccian Middle English piken Middle English pekken Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere Middle English pekker English pecker From Middle English pekker, equivalent to peck (“to pick at something in the manner of a bird”) + -er (“forming agent nouns”).

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