peck

Meaning

1. To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird).
2. To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.
3. To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements.
4. To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.
5. To do something in small, intermittent pieces.
6. To type by searching for each key individually.
7. To type in general.
8. To kiss briefly.

great number

hen-peck

quite a little

good deal

tidy sum

poke at

scratch off

snap at

eat little by little

gradually do something

peck up

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɛk/

From Middle English pecken, pekken, variant of Middle English piken, picken, pikken (“to pick, use a pointed implement”). More at pick.

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