Crossword clues for pecker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pecker \Peck"er\, n.
One who, or that which, pecks; specif., a bird that pecks holes in trees; a woodpecker.
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An instrument for pecking; a pick.
--Garth.Flower pecker. (Zo["o]l.) See under Flower.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who pecks," 1690s, agent noun from peck (v.); slang sense of "penis" is from 1902.
Wiktionary
n. 1 someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly: 2 # (context uncommon or regional English) Any tool used in a pecking fashion, particularly kinds of hoes or pickaxes. 3 # (context uncommon English) Any machine or machine part move in a pecking fashion, particularly: 4 ## (context weaving obsolete English) A picker, a shuttle-driver: the device which moves backwards and forwards in the shuttle-box to drive the shuttle through the warp. 5 ##* '''1807''', Thomas Johnson, British Patent № 3023 (1856), 5: 6 ##*: The shuttle... receives its motion from the '''peckers''' connected with cords pulled by the '''pecking''' lever. 7 ##* '''1878''', Alfred Barlow, ''The History and Principles of Weaving by Hand and by Power'', x. 136: 8 ##*: When the shaft [of the draw-boy] rocks from side to side of the machine, it will carry the '''pecker'''... with it. 9 ## (context telegraphy historical English) A kind of V-shaped telegraphic relay. 10 ##* '''1858 June 13''', H.C.F. Jenkin, letter in ''Papers'' (1887), volume I, page lxxxvi: 11 ##*: Click, click, click, the '''pecker''' is at work. 12 ##* '''1940''', ''Chambers's Technical Dictionary'', 621/1: 13 ##*: '''''Pecker''''', the small cylindrical pin which rises and falls in scanning the holes punched in a slip corresponding to the coding of the message. 14 ## (context US regional historical English) (short for pecker mill nodot=11 English), a rice mill. 15 ##* '''1802''', J. Drayton, ''A view of South Carolina, as respects her natural and civil concerns'', page 121: 16 ##*: Rice mills, called '''pecker''', cog, and water '''mills'''... The first... so called, from the pestle's striking... in the manner of a wood pecker. 17 ##* '''1949''', S. C. Murray, ''This Our Land: the Story of the Agricultural Society of South Carolina'', page 41: 18 ##*: After being thrashed by flail or whipped off, the rice was milled and dressed wholly by hand or by a crude machine called a ‘'''pecker'''’. 19 # (context zoology English) A bird, particularly a member of the group of birds including the berrypeckers, flowerpeckers, and woodpeckers. 20 ## (context zoology usually colloquial or US regional English) (short for woodpecker nodot=11 English) (''species:Picidae''). 21 ##* '''1883''', J.S. Stallybrass translating (w: Jacob Grimm) as ''Teutonic Mythology'', volume III, page 973: 22 ##*: The '''pecker''' was esteemed a sacred and divine bird. 23 ##* '''1980''' January 20, ''Washington Post'', m1: 24 ##*: I've been feeding several downy '''’peckers''' from my short-perched tubes for years. 25 # (context UK regional obsolete English) An eater, a diner. 26 # (context UK regional English) A bird's beak or bill. 27 # (context chiefly US regional slang English) cock, dick; a penis. 28 (context UK colloquial by extension from ‘beak’ English) A nose. 29 (context UK colloquial by extension from the expression ‘keep one's pecker up’ English) spirits, nerve, courage. 30 (context chiefly plural pejorative slang English) ''Short for'' '''peckerwood''' ("whitey; white trash") 31 (context chiefly plural pejorative slang English) ''Short for'' '''peckerhead''' ("dickhead; an aggressive or objectionable idiot"). 32 (context US English) (short for pecker head nodot=11 English) ("an electric motor's junction or terminal connection box, where power cords are connected to the winding leads").
WordNet
Wikipedia
Pecker (the sysetematic use of pecker consistently refers to the word to resemble something small e.g bucket compared to a mop American
- the woodpeckers, a family of birds
- the penis
It may also refer to:
- Various other birds, including the berrypeckers and flowerpeckers
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Pecker, an 1998 movie directed by John Waters
- Pecker’s soundtrack, released as an album
- Cory Pecker (born 1981), Canadian ice hockey player
- "Pecker", the nickname of the darts player Brian Woods
- 1629 Pecker, an asteroid discovered in 1952 by astronomer Louis Boyer
- Pecker, a character from the Jak and Daxter video game series
- Boris Pecker, a fictional character in Ben Elton's Dead Famous
- An electric motor's terminal connection box, in American slang
- A nose or courage, in British slang
Pecker is a 1998 American comedy-drama film written and directed by John Waters and starring Edward Furlong and Christina Ricci. Like all Waters' films, it was filmed and set in Baltimore; this film was set in the Hampden neighborhood.
The film examines the rise to fame and potential fortune of a budding photographer.
Usage examples of "pecker".
Keep your pecker up, and if you want your back rubbed with turps, or anything of that sort, just knock on the wall.
Somehow, in the midst of such confusion and noise, while fumbling to free his shriveled pecker, Amarante dislodged his Colt Peacemaker instead, which fell into the urinal with a clang, announcing the arrival of Horsethief Shorty, followed closely by Marvin LaBlue, and then Charley Bloom with his daughter, Maria, who immediately freaked at the sight of these old and middle-aged men laughing and chattering in Spanish and smoking cigarettes, completely and cacophonously cluttering up the tiny room.
For all I know, you were just playing with your pecker, toying with your tool, commingling with your cockster, know what I mean?
Dory all of a sudden has enough dynamite piled around him to blow the lid off his marriage, his livelihood, his whole fucking life not to mention his diseased dogshit pecker.
He'd do it and do it and do it until he just couldn't get his pecker up to do it any more, and then he'd want to watch X-rated videotapes.
Lieder had taken that Swede girl upstairs more than an hour ago, and Bobby-My-Boy was sitting in the corner with Chinky, making her play with his pecker.
But by then we might all be blank-eyed corpses, frozen stiffer than a coon dog's pecker.
Arty said, in private, that the scumbags were required to fork over everything they had in the world, and, if it wasn't enough, they could go home and get their ears pierced or their peckers circumcised and see what that did for them.
I knew the scenery of Greenup Road, which we called Steam-It-Up Road, and I knew what a pecker looked like, and none of these sights had so far inspired me to get hogtied to a future as a tobacco farmer’s wife.
The children at the Punch-and-Judy show gaped in amazement: a few deft movements emanating from his right wrist, and his pecker loomed so large that the tip emerged from the shadow of the pilothouse and the sun fell on it.
A rich man in a silk singlet, drunk, accosted him on the street one evening as Richards shambled home after a fruitless day, and told him he would give Richards ten New Dollars if Richards would pull down his pants so he could see if the street freaks really did have peckers a foot long.
In the same class I should put the secret parts of a few women and young girls, my own pecker, the plaster watering can of the boy Jesus, and the ring finger which scarcely two years ago that dog found in a rye field and brought to me, which a year ago I was still allowed to keep, in a preserving jar to be sure where I couldn't get at it, yet so distinct and complete that to this day I can still feel and count each one of its joints with the help of my drumsticks.
She got a palace all built to keep him in, all made o' gold and precious jools and pure plat'num, an' wet nurses running all around, an' flunkies to comb his hair and wash his pecker and butter his toes.