Uk English Meaning of peck
peck
Other Uk English words related to peck
- bunch
- bushel
- chunk
- deal
- Dozen
- loads
- a lot
- pile
- lots
- quantity
- army
- tonne
- wealth
- abundance
- barrel
- basketful
- Boatload
- bucket
- bundle
- lorry load, articulated lorry load
- a fistful
- gobs
- Good deal
- heap
- hundred
- lashings
- mass
- mess
- mountain
- much
- Multiplicity
- myriad
- loads
- Pack
- Bunch
- plateful
- plenitude
- Pot
- Potful
- profusion
- Raft
- heaps
- Sheaf
- shipload
- Sight
- Stack
- shop
- volume
- plug of cotton wool
- yard
- every kind (of) / all types (of)
- loads
- quite a bit
- reams
- army
- bevy
- bonanza
- cram
- crowd
- crush
- deluge
- drove
- Embarrassment
- epidemic
- excess
- flock
- flood
- herd
- horde
- host
- million
- mob
- multitude
- overabundance
- overflow
- overkill
- excessive
- oversupply
- plague
- abundance
- plethora
- press
- Rash
- redundancy
- score
- sea
- spate
- Superabundance
- superfluity
- surfeit
- surplus
- swarm
- throng
- thousands
- _ace_
- Atom
- bit
- crumb
- dab
- dot
- dram
- fragment
- glimmer
- grain
- Granule
- handful
- hint
- jot
- Mite
- a bit
- Molecule
- moat
- mouthful
- nip
- ounce
- particle
- Peanuts
- pinch
- pittance
- Ray
- scrap
- scruple
- shade
- shadow
- shred
- Speck
- spot
- sprinkle
- sprinkling
- strain
- streak
- suspicion
- bit
- taste
- title
- touch
- trace
- whit
- absence
- dash
- dribble
- drop
- speck
- flyspeck
- iota
- lack
- little
- mouthful
- nubbin
- piece
- portion
- scintilla
- section
- shortage
- drivel
- smattering
- smidge
- smidgen
- smidgeon
- smidgen
- Dearth
- deficiency
- deficit
- famine
- inadequacy
- insufficiency
- scarcity
- poverty
- Scarcity
- want
Nearest Words of peck
Definitions and Meaning of peck in English
peck (n)
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons
a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches
peck (v)
hit lightly with a picking motion
eat by pecking at, like a bird
kiss lightly
eat like a bird
bother persistently with trivial complaints
peck (n.)
The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat.
A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument.
peck (v.)
To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree.
Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc., with repeated quick movements.
To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; -- often with up.
To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree.
peck (v. i.)
To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument.
To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat.
FAQs About the word peck
peck
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent, a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons, a United States dry measure
bunch,bushel,chunk,deal,Dozen,loads,a lot,pile,lots,quantity
_ace_,Atom,bit,crumb,dab,dot,dram,fragment,glimmer,grain
peccavi => I have sinned, peccary => Peccary, peccaries => Peccaries, peccari angulatus => Collared peccary, peccantly => sinfully,
