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pecker

noun
/ˈpɛkə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From Middle English pekker, equivalent to peck (“to pick at something in the manner of a bird”) + -er (“forming agent nouns”).

  1. inherited from pekker

Definitions

  1. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak…

    Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly

  2. A nose.

  3. Spirits, nerve, courage.

    • Pecker, ‘keep your Pecker up’,... literally, keep your beak and head well up, ‘never say die’.
    • Be firm, my moral pecker.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Short for peckerwood ("whitey

      Short for peckerwood ("whitey; white trash")

      • These peckers know that as well as me.
      • Those cats wouldn't let us get five feet from the Y.M.C.A. Like real peckers, they'd say, ‘If I had you down South.’

    2. Short for peckerhead ("dickhead

      Short for peckerhead ("dickhead; an aggressive or objectionable idiot").

      • Goddammit! I give you peckers an inch and you automatically take a mile […]

    3. Clipping of peckerhead (“an electric motor's junction or terminal connection box, where…

      Clipping of peckerhead (“an electric motor's junction or terminal connection box, where power cords are connected to the winding leads”).

The neighborhood

Derived

antpecker, berrypecker, figpecker, flowerpecker, groundpecker, hunt-and-pecker, keep one's pecker up, mountain pecker, nutpecker, pecker checker, peckerhead, pecker-head, pecker head, peckerless, pecker mill, pecker snot, peckerwood, pecky, rare pecker, stonepecker, wall-pecker, woodpecker

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pecker. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA