peck
/pɛk/ verb B2- To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird). · The birds pecked at their food.
- To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument. · to peck a hole in a tree
- To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements.
- To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.
- To do something in small, intermittent pieces. · He has been pecking away at that project for some time now.
- To type by searching for each key individually.
- To kiss briefly.
He/she/it pecks · Past pecked · Past participle pecked · -ing form pecking
Verb forms
- Base form
- peck
- He/she/it
- pecks
- Past
- pecked
- Past participle
- pecked
- -ing form
- pecking
From the library
But when one day he forgot himself and began to chatter, they discovered his true character and drove him forth, pecking him with their beaks.
And the Wicked Witch said to the King Crow, “Fly at once to the strangers; peck out their eyes and tear them to pieces.”
I will peck his eyes out.”
One could have eaten a meal off the ground without overbrimming the proverbial peck of dirt.
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