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peck
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
Etymology 1
From Middle English pecken, pekken, variant of Middle English piken, picken, pikken (“to pick, use a pointed implement”). More at pick.
Verb
peck (third-person singular simple present pecks, present participle pecking, simple past and past participle pecked)
- (transitive, intransitive) To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird).
- The birds pecked at their food.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Chapter 2
- The rooster had been known to fly on her shoulder and peck her neck, so that now she carried a stick or took one of the children with her when she went to feed the fowls.
- (transitive) To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.
- to peck a hole in a tree
- To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements.
- To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.
- 1713 September 14, letter to Joseph Addison, The Guardian, issue 160.
- To do something in small, intermittent pieces.
- He has been pecking away at that project for some time now.
- To type by searching for each key individually.
- (rare) To type in general.
- To kiss briefly.
- 1997, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Chapter 1; 1998 ed., Scholastic Press, ?ISBN, p. 2
- 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.
- 1997, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Chapter 1; 1998 ed., Scholastic Press, ?ISBN, p. 2
Derived terms
- pecking order
- peckish
- woodpecker
Translations
Noun
peck (plural pecks)
- An act of striking with a beak.
- A small kiss.
Translations
Etymology 2
Probably from Anglo-Norman pek, pekke, of uncertain origin.
Noun
peck (plural pecks)
- One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts.
- They picked a peck of wheat.
- A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
- She figured most children probably ate a peck of dirt before they turned ten.
Translations
Etymology 3
Variant of pick (“to throw”).
Verb
peck (third-person singular simple present pecks, present participle pecking, simple past and past participle pecked)
- (regional) To throw.
- To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of the flat of the foot.
- 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin 2013, p. 97:
- 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.
- 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin 2013, p. 97:
Etymology 4
Noun
peck (uncountable)
- Discoloration caused by fungus growth or insects.
- an occurrence of peck in rice
Derived terms
- pecky
Etymology 5
Noun
peck
- Misspelling of pec.
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dozen
English
Etymology
From Middle English dozen, dozein, doseyne, from Old French dozaine (“a group of twelve”), from doze (“twelve”) + -aine (“-ish”), from Latin duodecim (“twelve”) (from duo (“two”) + decem (“ten”)) + -ana (“-ish”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?z?n/
- Rhymes: -?z?n
Noun
dozen (plural dozens or dozen)
- A set of twelve.
- Can I have a dozen eggs, please?
- I ordered two dozen doughnuts.
- There shouldn't be more than two dozen Christmas cards left to write.
- Pack the shirts in dozens, please.
- (as plural only, always followed by of) A large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred; many.
- There must have been dozens of examples just on the first page.
- There were dozens and dozens of applicants before the job was posted.
- (metallurgy) An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.
- 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 139
- The dozen as a measure for iron ore remained almost completely constant at 12 cwts. during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
- 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 139
Synonyms
- (followed by of: a large number of): a great deal of, a lot of, heaps of, hundreds of, loads of, lots of, many, millions of, scores of, scads of, thousands of
Antonyms
- (followed by of: a large number of): few
Abbreviations
- doz
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
Translations
See also
- gross
Anagrams
- Donze, zendo, zoned
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -o?z?n
Noun
dozen
- Plural form of doos
Anagrams
- zoden, zonde
Scots
Etymology
Related to doze.
Verb
dozen
- (transitive) To stupefy.
- (intransitive) To become stupefied.
dozen From the web:
- = 12
- what dozen mean
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