How do you pronounce pecker?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈpɛkə(ɹ)/.

Where does pecker come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

pecker

/ˈpɛkə(ɹ)/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.52 in modern English

Syllables: peck-er
IPA: /ˈpɛkə(ɹ)/

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Meaning

noun

Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly

noun

Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill

noun

Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill

noun

Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill

Obsolete

noun

Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill

noun

Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill

American usage

noun

Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill

noun

Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill

American usage; Colloquial

Example Sentences

"Two studies of British civil servants, for example, suggest that those at the top of the heap are less stressed than those near the bottom. Work on other species, too, indicates that when it comes to pecking orders, the peckees are more stressed than the peckers."
"The women with short peckers or parers,... of a foote long and about fiue inches in breadth: doe onely breake the vpper part of the ground to rayse vp the weedes, grasse, & old stubbes of corne stalkes with their rootes... For their corne,... with a pecker they make a hole, wherein they put foure graines."
"Let sturdy youths their pointed peckers ply, Till the rais'd roots loose on the surface lie."
"A small narrow hoe or pecker... A small hand-pecker."
"Pecker, small pickaxe for cutting furze."
"The upper end of the finger o carries a "pecker" p, which consists of a hardened steel piece with a V edge. This pecker is engaged by any one of several steps or notches in a stepped block m carried by the rocking lever l."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *pikkōną Proto-West Germanic *pikkōn Old English *piccian Middle English piken Middle English pekken Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere Middle English pekker English pecker From Middle English pekker, equivalent to peck (“to pick at something in the manner of a bird”) + -er (“forming agent nouns”).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: pekker

Usage

Inflected Forms

peckers (plural)

Derived Forms

antpecker berrypecker figpecker flowerpecker groundpecker nutpecker peckerhead peckerless peckerwood pecky stonepecker woodpecker

Phrases

hunt-and-pecker keep one's pecker up mountain pecker pecker checker pecker-head pecker head pecker mill pecker snot

Frequently Paired Words

peckish

Synonyms

bill neb nib nose penis courage pothead T-box T-block

Rhymes With

becker decker checker wrecker trekker ekker

pecker

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