peck
suomi-englanti sanakirjapeck englannista suomeksi
peck
nokkia
antaa suukko, suikkaista
näykkiä
nokkaista
kasapäin
motkottaa
peck englanniksi
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(RQ:Woolf Jacob's Room)
(RQ:Baum Wizard of Oz)
To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.
To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements.
To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with ''up''.
(RQ:Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost)
1713 September 14, letter to Joseph Addison, ''The Guardian'', issue 160.
- (quote)
To do something in small, intermittent pieces.
To type in general.
To kiss briefly.
(RQ:Rowling Harry Potter)
An act of striking with a beak.
A small kiss.
''They picked a peck of wheat.''
(quote-book)
A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
''She figured most children probably ate a peck of dirt before they turned ten.''
(RQ:Milton Divorce)
To throw.
To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of the flat of the foot.
{{quote-text|en|year=1928|author=Siegfried Sassoon|title=Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man|page=97|publisher=Penguin|year_published=2013
''an occurrence of peck in rice''
Food.
{{quote-text|en|year=1821|author=W. T. Moncrieff|title=Tom and Jerry
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