peck
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(verb) eat by pecking at; of birds |
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Synonyms: pick up |
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Related Words: eat |
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| 2. |
(verb) hit lightly with a picking motion |
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Synonyms: beak, pick |
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Related Words: strike |
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(noun) a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches |
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Related Words: United States dry unit |
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(noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons |
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Related Words: British capacity unit, Imperial capacity unit |
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(verb) bother persistently with trivial complaints; "She nags her husband all day long" |
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Synonyms: hen-peck, nag |
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Related Words: complain, kick, kvetch, plain, quetch, sound off |
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(verb) kiss lightly |
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Synonyms: smack |
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Related Words: buss, kiss, osculate |
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(verb) eat like a bird |
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Synonyms: peck at, pick at |
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Related Words: eat |
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(noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent: "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "it must have cost plenty" |
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Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew |
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Related Words: deluge, flood, large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity, torrent |
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