pecker
IPA: pɪkɝ
noun
- Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly:
- (uncommon or regional) Any tool used in a pecking fashion, particularly kinds of hoes or pickaxes.
- (uncommon) Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion, particularly:
- (weaving, obsolete) A picker, a shuttle-driver: the device which moves backwards and forwards in the shuttle-box to drive the shuttle through the warp.
- (telegraphy, historical) A kind of V-shaped telegraphic relay.
- (zoology) A bird, particularly a member of the group including the woodpeckers, flowerpeckers, oxpeckers, and berrypeckers.
- (UK regional, obsolete) An eater, a diner.
- (UK regional) A bird's beak.
- (chiefly US, regional, slang) A penis; cock, dick.
- (UK colloquial, by extension of the sense ‘beak’) A nose.
- (UK colloquial, by extension, from the expression ‘keep one's pecker up’) Spirits, nerve, courage.
- (US regional, historical) Clipping of pecker mill, a rice mill. [(US dialectal, historical) A kind of rice mill.]
- (zoology, usually colloquial or US regional) Clipping of woodpecker (Picidae). [Any bird of species-rich family Picidae, with a strong pointed beak suitable for pecking holes in wood.]
- (chiefly in the plural, derogatory slang) Short for peckerwood ("whitey; white trash") [(Southern US, Appalachia, slang) A woodpecker.]
- (chiefly in the plural, derogatory slang) Short for peckerhead ("dickhead; an aggressive or objectionable idiot"). [(chiefly US, derogatory) A dickhead: an unpleasant, stupid or mean person.]
- (US) Clipping of peckerhead ("an electric motor's junction or terminal connection box, where power cords are connected to the winding leads"). [(chiefly US, derogatory) A dickhead: an unpleasant, stupid or mean person.]
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Examples of "pecker" in Sentences
- He told her that a pecker is another name for a winky.
- I suspect the pecker is just fine minus a lost clutch of eggs.
- Unthinking obedience to a line of bullshit because your pecker is so small you have to make up for it in other ways.
- T R L Says: yeah rite yoo I bet you were gettin that veinna sausage you call a pecker a chubby writeing that bullshyt zuch Says:
- So I've never been quite convinced that there wasn't some kind of early, dirty meaning of "pecker" that he might have been aware of.
- Black Wood pecker which is found in most parts of the rocky Mountains as will as the Western and S W. mountains, I had never an oppertunity of examineing, untill a fiew days Since when we killed and preserved
- The rice was then cut with the sickle and carried in on the head, then threshed with the flail, then milled and dressed, in some cases wholly by human labor, and in others by a rude machine, called a pecker mill.
- According to an article about double entendres, (intentional and otherwise) in great literature that ran in Playboy about 40 years ago, "pecker" in British slang meant "lips" or "mouth" (cf: "give a peck on the cheek").
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