pecker
Americannoun
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a person or thing that pecks.
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a bird's bill.
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a woodpecker.
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Slang: Vulgar. penis.
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British Slang. one's spirits or courage.
noun
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slang spirits (esp in the phrase keep one's pecker up )
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informal short for woodpecker
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slang a slang word for penis
Etymology
Origin of pecker
Example Sentences
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"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
Now were G-SCH-N seen collecting cash for his dry Exchequer With pole and net, it were nicer, you bet, than keeping up his financial pecker With Spirit Duties!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 23, 1891 by Various
Yes, he picked a peck of pepper; Pick, pecker, peacock!
From Rhymes Old and New : collected by M.E.S. Wright by Wright, M. E. S.
Well, keep up yer pecker, my pippin, and keep down yer natural rage.
From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 by Furniss, Harry
“Keep your pecker up, and if you’ll take the advice of an old sailor, I’d recommend you to write to your friends and go home.”
From On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story by Overend, William Heysham
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