Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that pecks, as a bird's bill.
- noun Vulgar Slang The penis.
- noun Chiefly British Slang Courage; pluck.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which pecks, picks, or hacks; especially, a bird that pecks, as in the compounds nutpecker, oxpecker, woodpecker, flower-pecker.
- noun A picker or pickax.
- noun In weaving, the picker of a loom; the shuttle-driver.
- noun In telegraphy, a relay. Earlier forms of this apparatus pecked like a bird: hence the name.
- noun Courage; spirits; good cheer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, pecks; specif., a bird that pecks holes in trees; a woodpecker.
- noun An instrument for pecking; a pick.
- noun The penis; -- an obscene term for the male sexual organ.
- noun (Zoöl.) See under
Flower .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Anything that
pecks , such as a bird, or thebill of a bird. - noun
Woodpecker . - noun slang The
penis . - noun chiefly UK, slang The
mouth - noun chiefly UK
Spirits ,nerve ,courage .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects
- noun obscene terms for penis
- noun horny projecting mouth of a bird
Etymologies
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Examples
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I suspect the pecker is just fine minus a lost clutch of eggs.
Woodpecker vs. Snake 2010
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I suspect the pecker is just fine minus a lost clutch of eggs.
Woodpecker vs. Snake 2010
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Unthinking obedience to a line of bullshit because your pecker is so small you have to make up for it in other ways.
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T R L Says: yeah rite yoo I bet you were gettin that veinna sausage you call a pecker a chubby writeing that bullshyt zuch Says:
Think Progress 2009
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The rice was then cut with the sickle and carried in on the head, then threshed with the flail, then milled and dressed, in some cases wholly by human labor, and in others by a rude machine, called a pecker mill.
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He told her that a pecker is another name for a winky.
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So I've never been quite convinced that there wasn't some kind of early, dirty meaning of "pecker" that he might have been aware of.
Archive 2007-08-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2007
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According to an article about double entendres, (intentional and otherwise) in great literature that ran in Playboy about 40 years ago, "pecker" in British slang meant "lips" or "mouth" (cf: "give a peck on the cheek").
My Intercostal Clavicle Jaime J. Weinman 2007
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So I've never been quite convinced that there wasn't some kind of early, dirty meaning of "pecker" that he might have been aware of.
My Intercostal Clavicle Jaime J. Weinman 2007
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Black Wood pecker which is found in most parts of the rocky Mountains as will as the Western and S W. mountains, I had never an oppertunity of examineing, untill a fiew days Since when we killed and preserved
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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