peck

Etymology 1
From, , variant of , ,. More at.

Verb

 * 1)  To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird).
 * 2)  To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.
 * 3) To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements.
 * 4) To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.
 * 5) * 1713 September 14, letter to Joseph Addison, The Guardian, issue 160.
 * "en"
 * 1) To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements.
 * 2) To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.
 * 3) * 1713 September 14, letter to Joseph Addison, The Guardian, issue 160.
 * "en"
 * "en"

- I HAVE laid a wager, with a friend of mine, about the pigeons that used to peck up the corn which belonged to the ants.


 * 1) To do something in small, intermittent pieces.
 * 2) To type by searching for each key individually.
 * 3)  To type in general.
 * 4) To kiss briefly.
 * 1) To kiss briefly.

Translations

 * Abkhaz:
 * Adyghe:
 * Afrikaans:
 * Aghwan:
 * Akan:
 * Aklanon:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: نَقَّرَ, نَقَرَ
 * Moroccan Arabic: نقب
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: dənləmək
 * Bashkir: соҡоу
 * Belarusian: дзю́баць, дзю́бнуць
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 啄
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, klovat
 * Danish: pikke
 * Dutch:
 * Faroese: pikka
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hindi: चोंच मारना
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Ingrian: nokkia
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ついばむ
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Lao: ຈີກ
 * Macedonian: колве, клука
 * Malay: cagut, catuk, pagut, patuk
 * Maltese: naqab
 * Maori: tongi, timo, timotimo
 * Moroccan Amazigh: ⵏⵇⴱ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Old English: pycan
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: ch'aphchay, chhutuy
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: зобати, кљуцати, кљувати
 * Roman:, ,
 * Slovak: ďobať, zobať
 * Slovene: kljuvati
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tashelhit: ⵏⵇⴱ
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian: клюва́ти, клю́нути, дзьо́бати, дзьоба́ти, дзьо́бнути, дзю́бати, дзюба́ти, дзю́бнути
 * Vietnamese:
 * Walloon: ,
 * Yiddish: פּיקן


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:
 * German: die Tastatur im Einfingersuchsystem bedienen, mit dem Adlersuchsystem schreiben


 * Finnish: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Esperanto: kiseti
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: einen flüchtigen Kuss geben, flüchtig küssen
 * Hungarian:
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: цмокнува
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: bicar
 * Swedish:

Noun

 * 1) An act of striking with a beak.
 * 2) A small kiss.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Esperanto: bekbato
 * German: Schnabelhieb
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: целувчица
 * Esperanto: kiseto
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:, , flüchtiger Kuss
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: bacetto,
 * Macedonian: цмок
 * Occitan:
 * Polish: cmoknięcie
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Etymology 2
Probably from, , of uncertain origin.

Noun

 * 1) One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts.
 * They picked a peck of wheat.
 * 1) A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
 * She figured most children probably ate a peck of dirt before they turned ten.
 * 1) A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
 * She figured most children probably ate a peck of dirt before they turned ten.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: picotí
 * Finnish: ; kaksi kappaa
 * French:
 * German: Viertelscheffel
 * Latin: modius
 * Russian:


 * Bulgarian: голямо количество
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: ,
 * Russian: ,

Etymology 3
Variant of.

Verb

 * 1)  To throw.
 * 2) To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of the flat of the foot.

Noun

 * 1) Discoloration caused by fungus growth or insects.
 * an occurrence of peck in rice

Noun

 * 1)  Food.