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peck

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peck in WordNet English dictionary

noun
  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"
    batch  deal  flock  good deal  great deal  hatful  heap  lot  mass  mess  mickle  mint  mountain  muckle  passel  peck  pile  plenty  pot  quite a little  raft  sight  slew  spate  stack  tidy sum  wad 
  2. a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches
    peck 
  3. a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons
    peck 
verb
  1. hit lightly with a picking motion
    peck  pick  beak 
  2. bother persistently with trivial complaints
    "She nags her husband all day long"
    nag  peck  hen-peck 
  3. eat by pecking at, like a bird
    peck  pick up 
  4. eat like a bird
    "The anorexic girl just picks at her food"
    pick at  peck at  peck 
  5. kiss lightly
    smack  peck 
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