pecker
Meaning
- Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
- (obsolete) Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
- Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
- Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
- Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
- Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
- Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
- (obsolete) Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
- Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
- (slang) Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
- Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly
- (colloquial) A nose.
- (colloquial) Spirits, nerve, courage.
- (slang) Short for peckerwood ("whitey; white trash")
- (slang) Short for peckerhead ("dickhead; an aggressive or objectionable idiot").
- Clipping of peckerhead ("an electric motor's junction or terminal connection box, where power cords are connected to the winding leads").
Synonyms
hole forming pin
Frequency
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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