PECKER

beak, bill, neb, nib, pecker

(noun) horny projecting mouth of a bird

woodpecker, peckerwood, pecker

(noun) bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects

cock, prick, dick, shaft, pecker, tool, putz

(noun) obscene terms for penis

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

pecker (plural peckers)

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.

(US regional, historical) Clipping of pecker mill, a rice mill.

(zoology) A bird, particularly a member of the group of birds including the berrypeckers, flowerpeckers, and woodpeckers.

(zoology, usually colloquial or US regional) Clipping of woodpecker (Picidae).

(UK regional, obsolete) An eater, a diner.

(UK regional) A bird's beak or bill.

(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.

(chiefly in the plural, pejorative slang) Short for peckerwood ("whitey; white trash")

(chiefly in the plural, pejorative slang) Short for peckerhead ("dickhead; an aggressive or objectionable idiot").

(US) Clipping of pecker head ("an electric motor's junction or terminal connection box, where power cords are connected to the winding leads").

Synonyms

• (penis) See penis

• (courage) See courage

• (connection box) pothead (Canada); T-box, T-block (UK)

Anagrams

• repeck

Source: Wiktionary


Peck"er, n.

1. One who, or that which, pecks; specif., a bird that pecks holes in trees; a woodpecker.

2. An instrument for pecking; a pick. Garth. Flower pecker. (Zoöl.) See under Flower.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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18 April 2025

GROIN

(noun) the crease at the junction of the inner part of the thigh with the trunk together with the adjacent region and often including the external genitals


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