beccare
- (transitive) to peck
- (transitive) to peck up (to pick up with the beck, in order to eat; of a bird)
- (broadly, humorous, transitive) to eat
- (broadly, transitive) (of an insect, etc.) to sting or bite
- (transitive) to provoke
- (transitive) to heckle
- (figuratively, informal, transitive) to nab, to catch
- (figuratively, transitive) to get, pick up
- (informal, intransitive) to lose (fail to win)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
bec‧cà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/bekˈka.re/
Etymology
From becco (“beak, bill”) + -are.
picotear
picken
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