pecker

Meaning

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

Frequency

20k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpɛkə(ɹ)/
Etymology

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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