peck

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Misspelling of pec. alt-of,misspelling
  2. Food. UK,obsolete,slang,uncountable
    — Gemmen, have you ordered the peck and booze for the evening?
  3. Discoloration caused by fungus growth or insects. uncountable
    — an occurrence of peck in rice
  4. One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; equal to approximately 9092 cubic centimeters in the imperial system or 8810 cubic centimeters in the U.S. system.
    — Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
  5. An act of striking with a beak.
  6. A small kiss.
  7. Similar units in other systems of measure, such as the Roman modius or Chinese dou.
  8. A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
    — She figured most children probably ate a peck of dirt before they turned ten.
动词 v.
  1. To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird). ambitransitive
    — The birds pecked at their food.
  2. To throw. regional
  3. To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of the flat of the foot.
    — Anyhow, one of them fell, another one pecked badly, and Jerry disengaged himself from the group to scuttle up the short strip of meadow to win by a length.
  4. To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument. transitive
    — to peck a hole in a tree
  5. To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements.
  6. To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.
    — This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons peas.
  7. To do something in small, intermittent pieces.
    — He has been pecking away at that project for some time now.
  8. To type by searching for each key individually.
  9. To type in general. rare
  10. To kiss briefly.
    — At half past eight, Mr. Dursley picked up his briefcase, pecked Mrs. Dursley on the cheek, and tried to kiss Dudley good-bye but missed, because Dudley was now having a tantrum and throwing his cereal at the walls.

词形变化

pecks present,singular,third-person pecking participle,present pecked participle,past pecked past pecks plural pecks plural pecks present,singular,third-person pecking participle,present pecked participle,past pecked past

词汇关系

衍生词
henpeck henpecked hunt and peck peck at peckingly pecking order peckish unpecked woodpecker peckproof woodpeck peckful

词源

词源 1
From Middle English pecken, pekken, variant of Middle English piken, picken, pikken (“to pick, use a pointed implement”). More at pick.
词源 2
Probably from Anglo-Norman pek, pekke, of uncertain origin.
词源 3
Variant of pick (“to throw”).
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