a. A stroke or light blow with the beak or a pointed instrument. b. A mark or hole made by such a stroke. 2. Informal A light quick kiss. [Middle English pecken, probably variant of piken, to peck (perhaps influenced by Middle Low German pekken); see pick1.]
Peck /pɛk/ n Gregory. 1916–2003, US film actor; his films include Keys of the Kingdom (1944), The Gunfighter (1950), The Big Country (1958), To Kill a Mockingbird (1963), The Omen (1976), and Other People's Money (1991)
To peck is to jab or bite at something the way a bird does with its beak. A peck is also a unit of measurement, like when Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
The meaning of PECK is a unit of capacity equal to ¼ bushel. How to use peck in a sentence.
A peck is an imperial and United States customary unit of dry volume, [1] equivalent to 8 dry quarts or 16 dry pints. An imperial peck is equivalent to 9.09218 liters and a US customary peck is equivalent to 8.80976754172 liters.
PECK meaning: 1. When a bird pecks, it bites, hits, or picks up something small with its beak: 2. to give…. Learn more.
peck (third-person singular simple present pecks, present participle pecking, simple past and past participle pecked) (ambitransitive) To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird).
If you peck someone on the cheek, you give them a quick, light kiss. Elizabeth walked up to him and pecked him on the cheek. [VERB noun + on] She pecked his cheek. [VERB noun]