peck

/pˈɛk/ · 1 syllable

Meaning

verb

1. hit lightly with a picking motion
2. eat by pecking at, like a bird
3. kiss lightly
4. eat like a bird
   “The anorexic girl just picks at her food”
5. bother persistently with trivial complaints
   “She nags her husband all day long”

noun

1. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
   “a batch of letters”
2. a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons
3. a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches

Synonyms for peck

• pick
• beak
• pick up
• smack
• pick at
• peck at
• nag
• hen-peck
• batch
• deal
• flock
• good deal
• great deal
• hatful
• heap
• lot
• mass
• mess
• mickle
• mint
• mountain
• muckle
• passel

Words that rhyme with peck

• check
• deck
• neck
• wreck
• bottleneck
• sec
• speck
• trek
• fleck
• cheque
• dec
• beck
• bedeck
• biotech
• breakneck
• discotheque
• lech
• lek
• parsec
• paycheck
• quarterdeck
• redneck
• roughneck
• spec
• tec
• tech
• turtleneck
• abcotek
• adaptec
• adtec