pecker

Signification (Anglais)

  1. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly
  2. (regional, uncommon) Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
  3. (uncommon) Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
  4. (obsolete, uncommon) Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
  5. (historical, uncommon) Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
  6. (US, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, historical, regional, uncommon) Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
  7. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
  8. (US, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, regional, usually) Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
  9. (UK, obsolete, regional) Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
  10. (UK, regional) Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
  11. (US, regional, slang) Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
  12. (UK, broadly, colloquial) A nose.
  13. (UK, broadly, colloquial) Spirits, nerve, courage.
  14. (abbreviation, alt-of, derogatory, in-plural, slang) Short for peckerwood ("whitey; white trash")
  15. (abbreviation, alt-of, derogatory, in-plural, slang) Short for peckerhead ("dickhead; an aggressive or objectionable idiot").
  16. (US, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping) Clipping of peckerhead (“an electric motor's junction or terminal connection box, where power cords are connected to the winding leads”).

Fréquence

20k
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/ˈpɛkə(ɹ)/
Étymologie (Anglais)

In summary

From Middle English pekker, equivalent to peck (“to pick at something in the manner of a bird”) + -er (“forming agent nouns”).

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