Meaning of Pecker | Babel Free
ˈpɛkə(ɹ)Definitions
- Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly
- 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.
- Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion, particularly
- 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.
- A kind of V-shaped telegraphic relay.
- Clipping of pecker mill, a rice mill.
- A bird, particularly a member of the group including the woodpeckers, flowerpeckers, oxpeckers, and berrypeckers.
- Clipping of woodpecker (Picidae).
- An eater, a diner.
-
A bird's beak. UK, regional
- A penis; cock, dick.
-
A nose. UK, broadly, colloquial
-
Spirits, nerve, courage. UK, broadly, colloquial
- Short for peckerwood ("whitey; white trash")
- Short for peckerhead ("dickhead; an aggressive or objectionable idiot").
-
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
Examples
“Two studies of British civil servants, for example, suggest⟳ that those at the top of the heap are less stressed than those near the bottom. Work⟳ on other species, too, indicates that when it comes to pecking orders, the peckees are more stressed than the peckers.”
“The women with short peckers or parers,... of a foote long and about fiue inches in breadth: doe onely breake the vpper part of the ground to rayse vp the weedes, grasse, & old stubbes of corne stalkes with their rootes... For their corne,... with a pecker they make⟳ a hole, wherein they put⟳ foure graines.”
“Let⟳ sturdy youths their pointed peckers ply, Till the rais'd roots loose on the surface lie⟳.”
“A small narrow hoe or pecker... A small hand-pecker.”
“Pecker, small pickaxe for cutting furze.”
“The upper end⟳ of the finger o carries a "pecker" p, which consists of a hardened steel piece with a V edge. This pecker is engaged by any one of several steps or notches in a stepped block⟳ m carried by the rocking lever l.”
“The shuttle... receives its motion from the peckers connected with cords pulled by the pecking lever.”
“When the shaft [of the draw-boy] rocks from side to side of the machine, it will carry⟳ the pecker... with it.”
“Click, click, click, the pecker is at work⟳.”
“Pecker, the small cylindrical pin which rises and falls in scanning the holes punched in a slip⟳ corresponding to the coding of the message.”
“Rice mills, called pecker, cog, and water mills... The first... so called, from the pestle's striking... in the manner of a wood pecker.”
“After being thrashed by flail or whipped off, the rice was milled and dressed wholly by hand or by a crude machine called a ‘pecker’.”
“The Titmouse, and the Peckers hungry Brood.”
“By far the greater number⟳ of modern birds belong⟳ to the... orders of the perchers, the peckers, and the birds of prey.”
“The pecker was esteemed a sacred and divine bird.”
“I've been feeding several downy ’peckers from my short-perched tubes for years.”
“He's a rare pecker.”
“Peck... A hearty eater is generally called ‘a rare pecker’.”
“But I've been better iver since, an' beginnin' to eat⟳ my vittles, too, though I'm never no great pecker.”
“Pecker, a bird's bill”
“Q. What does a bird peck its food up with?... [Wiltshire] Beak, pecker.”
“The penis... pecker.”
“Ought to stand⟳ on Times Square with my pecker in my hand and piss in the gutter.”
“There is a house down in New Orleans, They call⟳ it The Rising Sun, When you want⟳ to get⟳ your pecker spoilt, That's where you get⟳ it done.”
“He has the biggest pecker in the pool, politically speaking.”
“Mr. King... misstated the fact in saying that he had put⟳ a piece of lighted paper to the master's nose while asleep in that house; it was his hot pipe that he applied to the sleeper's nostrils, at the same time crying: Come⟳, old chap, keep⟳ your pecker up.”
“Pecker, ‘keep⟳ your Pecker up’,... literally, keep⟳ your beak and head well up, ‘never say⟳ die⟳’.”
“Be firm, my moral pecker.”
“... he had every facility given him to remain⟳ under lock⟳ and key, with a chair, a table, a mattress in a corner, and a litter of fallen plaster on the floor, in an irrational state of funk, and keeping up his pecker with such tonics as Mariani dispensed.”
“Fred and I managed to keep⟳ our peckers up somehow.”
“These peckers know⟳ that as well as me.”
“Those cats wouldn't let⟳ us get⟳ five feet from the Y.M.C.A. Like⟳ real peckers, they'd say⟳, ‘If I had you down South.’”
“Goddammit! I give⟳ you peckers an inch and you automatically take⟳ a mile […]”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
Know this word better than we do? Language is a living thing — help us keep it growing. Collaborate with Babel Free