different between peck vs pleck
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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pleck
English
Etymology
From Middle English pleck, plek, perhaps a variation of plack, or perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *plecc (“spot, mark”), from Proto-West Germanic *plakkju, from Proto-Germanic *plakj? (“spot, stain”).
Cognate with West Frisian plak (“place, location, spot”), Dutch plek (“place, spot, patch”), Low German Plakk, Plakke (“spot, place, patch”). More at patch.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pl?k/
Noun
pleck (plural plecks)
- (Britain dialectal) A plot of ground.
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