different between pocky vs pecky

English

From pock +? -y.

pocky (comparative more pocky, superlative most pocky)

Covered in pock marks; specifically, pox-ridden, syphilitic. [from 14th c.]
- 1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act V scene 1:
  Faith, if 'a be not rotten before 'a die (as we have many pocky corpses that will scarce hold the laying in) 'a will last you some eight year [...]
- 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, IV:
  ‘You Damn'd Confounded Pocky Whore, I am glad we are met, for now will I give you as many Stripes as I've taken Pills, Bolus's, and other Hellish Slip-slops on your Account.’

peck +? -y

pecky (comparative more pecky, superlative most pecky)

pecky

inflection of pecka:
1. genitive singular
2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

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