peck
1. (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent
- a batch of letters
- a deal of trouble
- a lot of money
- he made a mint on the stock market
- see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
- it must have cost plenty
- a slew of journalists
- a wad of money
• Syn:
batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal,
hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle,
mint, mountain, muckle, passel, pile, plenty,
pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate,
stack, tidy sum, wad
• Derivationally related forms:
wad (for: wad), plenteous (for: plenty), pile (for: pile), heap (for: heap)
• Hypernyms:
large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount
• Hyponyms:
flood, inundation, deluge, torrent, haymow
2. a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons
• Hypernyms:
British capacity unit, Imperial capacity unit
• Part Holonyms:
bushel
3. a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches
• Hypernyms:
United States dry unit
• Part Holonyms:
bushel
• Part Meronyms:
quart, dry quart
1. hit lightly with a picking motion (Freq. 3)
• Syn:
pick, beak
• Derivationally related forms:
beak (for: beak), pecker
• Hypernyms:
strike
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody PP
- Somebody ----s something PP
2. eat by pecking at, like a bird (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
pick up
• Derivationally related forms:
pecker
• Hypernyms:
eat
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
3. kiss lightly
• Syn:
smack
• Derivationally related forms:
smack (for: smack)
• Hypernyms:
snog, kiss, buss, osculate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Sam cannot peck Sue
4. eat like a bird
- The anorexic girl just picks at her food
• Syn:
pick at, peck at
• Hypernyms:
eat
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something (for: peck at)
- Somebody ----s something (for: pick at)
5. bother persistently with trivial complaints
- She nags her husband all day long
• Syn:
nag, hen-peck
• Derivationally related forms:
nag (for: nag), nagger (for: nag)
• Hypernyms:
complain, kick, plain, sound off, quetch, kvetch
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s somebody
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