pecker

American  

[pek-er] / ˈpɛk ər /

noun

• peckers
  plural

1. a person or thing that pecks.

2. a bird's bill.

3. a woodpecker.

4. Slang: Vulgar. penis.

5. British Slang. one's spirits or courage.

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pecker British  

/ ˈpɛkə /

noun

1. slang spirits (esp in the phrase keep one's pecker up )

2. informal short for woodpecker

3. slang a slang word for penis

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• peckers
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of pecker

First recorded in 1580–90; peck ¹ + -er ¹

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Example Sentences

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pecker peckers

"Thank you so much to everyone that has bought it - I hope you're having as much fun listening to it as I had making it. Keep your pecker up and all the very best."

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2014

The other cause is the very imperfect mode of its preparation for market; this being invariably accomplished by the primitive pestle and mortar, or the old-fashioned "pecker mill."

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. Simmonds

All around reigned holy silence, Only heard there was the hammering Of the pecker on the pine-trees.

From The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. by Joseph Victor von Scheffel

He got near enough to his sisters to say: "Keep up your pecker, Pansy, for there won't be any Aberdeen about it."

From Crusoes of the Frozen North by Gordon Stables

Well, keep up yer pecker, my pippin, and keep down yer natural rage.

From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 by Harry Furniss

Concrete peckers will be used to take the old bridge away before the debris is removed and the new bridge will be wheeled down the motorway and fitted into place.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2024

A perennial headache is the exotic structures' attraction for curiosity seekers and peckers.

From Time Magazine Archive

She lingered uncertainly among complacent wood peckers from the north.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

There were blue jays, which are very quarrelsome birds, and black-and- white peckers that pecked holes in the yucca stalks and the poles of my roof, even in the whale bones of the fence.

From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell

It wasn't your fault, only your instinct, so I quite forgive you; but no wonder the peckers wear better than the pecked.

From Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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