English Explanatory Dictionary

pecker

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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
  3. Any tool used in a pecking fashion, particularly kinds of hoes or pickaxes.
  4. Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion, particularly
  5. Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion
  6. A picker, a shuttle-driver: the device which moves backwards and forwards in the shuttle-box to drive the shuttle through the warp.
  7. A kind of V-shaped telegraphic relay.
  8. Clipping of pecker mill, a rice mill.
  9. A bird, particularly a member of the group including the woodpeckers, flowerpeckers, oxpeckers, and berrypeckers.
  10. Clipping of woodpecker (Picidae).
  11. An eater, a diner.
  12. A bird's beak.

Pronunciation

/ˈpɛkə(ɹ)/ En-au-pecker.ogg

Word forms

pecker peckers

Etymology

From Middle English pekker, equivalent to peck (“to pick at something in the manner of a bird”) + -er (“forming agent nouns”).

Synonyms

T-box T-block bill neb nib penis nose courage pothead

Related words

peckish

Derived words

antpecker berrypecker figpecker flowerpecker groundpecker hunt-and-pecker keep one's pecker up mountain pecker nutpecker pecker checker peckerhead pecker-head pecker head peckerless pecker mill pecker snot peckerwood pecky rare pecker stonepecker wall-pecker woodpecker

Translations

Dutch: pikker German: Picker
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