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1. Hit lightly with a picking motion
   - pick, beak
    
2. Eat by pecking at, like a bird
   - pick up
    
3. Kiss lightly
   - smack
    
4. Eat like a bird
   "The anorexic girl just pecks at her food";
   - pick at, peck at
    
5. Bother persistently with trivial complaints
   "She pecks her husband all day long";
   - nag, hen-peck

1. (often followed by 'of') a large number, amount or extent
   "a peck of letters";
   - batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle [archaic], mint, mountain, muckle, passel [US], pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, bunch
    
2. A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons
    
3. A United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches

Derived forms: pecked, pecks, pecking

Type of: British capacity unit, buss [N. Amer], complain, eat, Imperial capacity unit, kick, kiss, kvetch [N. Amer], large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity, moan, osculate, plain [archaic], quetch, sound off, strike, United States dry unit

Part of: bushel

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