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pecking

 
Verb peck has 5 senses
  1. peck, pick, beak - hit lightly with a picking motion
    --1 is one way to strike
    Derived form: noun pecker3
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody PP
    Somebody ----s something PP
  2. peck, pick up - eat by pecking at, like a bird
    --2 is one way to eat
    Derived form: noun pecker3
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s something
  3. smack, peck - kiss lightly
    --3 is one way to kiss, buss, osculate
    Sample sentence:
    Sam cannot peck Sue
  4. pick at, peck at, peck - eat like a bird; "The anorexic girl just picks at her food"
    --4 is one way to eat
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
  5. nag, peck, hen-peck - bother persistently with trivial complaints; "She nags her husband all day long"
    --5 is one way to complain, kick, plain, sound off, quetch, kvetch
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s somebody
peces pecessed pechant peck peck at pecked pecker peckerwood pecking pecking order peckinpah peckish pecks pecksniffian pecopteris pecorino pecos

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