pech

/ (pɛx) /

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verb, noun

a Scot word for pant

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Word Origin for pech

C15: of imitative origin

Words nearby pech

peccadillo, peccant, peccary, peccatophobia, peccavi, pech, pêche Melba, Pechenga, Pechora, peck, pecker

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How to use pech in a sentence

Pakistan is less than ten miles to our right, the Pech Valley immediately to our left.
Heart of Darkness: Into Afghanistan’s Taliban Valley|Matt Trevithick, Daniel Seckman|November 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Most drivers using this road are headed to and from a handful of capillary valleys in the Pech.
Heart of Darkness: Into Afghanistan’s Taliban Valley|Matt Trevithick, Daniel Seckman|November 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
We first met Hajji Zalwar Khan over tea and lunch in the Pech Valley in a house clinging to a cliff high above the valley floor.
Heart of Darkness: Into Afghanistan’s Taliban Valley|Matt Trevithick, Daniel Seckman|November 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Soldiers rotated out of the valley from other bases in the Pech for a weekend of relief from the fighting before being sent back.
Heart of Darkness: Into Afghanistan’s Taliban Valley|Matt Trevithick, Daniel Seckman|November 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Near the confluence of these two rivers a tiny bridge spans the gap connecting the Korengal with the Pech.
Heart of Darkness: Into Afghanistan’s Taliban Valley|Matt Trevithick, Daniel Seckman|November 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Pech adds a list of the names of Conquistadores which I have not inserted, as it is less complete than that found in Cogolludo.
The Maya Chronicles|Various
I proposed to employ the afternoon by a walk through Pech, and evoked a chorus of dismay and horror.
Through the Land of the Serb|Mary Edith Durham
The landlady rushed out when she heard our horse hoofs, for she was expecting her husband, who had also gone to Pech.
Through the Land of the Serb|Mary Edith Durham
Because pecht (or pech), trow, and fairy are all synonyms for "dwarf."
The Testimony of Tradition|David MacRitchie
Svet a rinn, hag z inn trz va zad, hag livirinn d'ezhan: Va zd, pech 'ed em euz a eneb ann env hag enu da enep.
The English Language|Robert Gordon Latham