Unscramble pecks

Definition of peck

noun:

• (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters", "a deal of trouble", "a lot of money", "he made a mint on the stock market", "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos", "it must have cost plenty", "a slew of journalists", "a wad of money". Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad.
• a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons.
• a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches.

verb:

• hit lightly with a picking motion. Synonyms: beak, pick.
• eat by pecking at, like a bird. Synonyms: pick up.
• kiss lightly. Synonyms: smack.
• eat like a bird; "The anorexic girl just picks at her food". Synonyms: peck at, pick at.
• bother persistently with trivial complaints; "She nags her husband all day long". Synonyms: hen-peck, nag.

Related words

deluge, flood, haymow, inundation, torrent.

Words nearby

beck, deck, eck, neck, pack, peak, pecs, peek, perk, pick, pock, puck, speck.

Rhymes with

beck, bedeck, check, cheque, czech, dec, deck, eck, exec, fleck, lech, lek, nec, neck, quebec, sec, spec, speck, tec, tech.