Definition of PECKER

pecker

Plural: peckers

Noun

  • One who pecks, or a bird's beak.
  • obscene terms for penis
  • bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects
  • horny projecting mouth of a bird
  • Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly
  • Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
  • Any tool used in a pecking fashion, particularly kinds of hoes or pickaxes.
  • Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
  • Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion, particularly
  • Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
  • Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion
  • A picker, a shuttle-driver: the device which moves backwards and forwards in the shuttle-box to drive the shuttle through the warp.
  • Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
  • Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion
  • A kind of V-shaped telegraphic relay.
  • Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
  • Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion
  • Clipping of pecker mill, a rice mill.
  • Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
  • A bird, particularly a member of the group including the woodpeckers, flowerpeckers, oxpeckers, and berrypeckers.
  • Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
  • A bird, particularly a member of the group including the woodpeckers, flowerpeckers, oxpeckers, and berrypeckers.
  • Clipping of woodpecker (Picidae).
  • Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
  • An eater, a diner.
  • Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
  • A bird's beak.
  • Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
  • A penis; cock, dick.
  • A nose.
  • Spirits, nerve, courage.
  • Short for peckerwood ("whitey; white trash")
  • Short for peckerhead ("dickhead; an aggressive or objectionable idiot").
  • Clipping of peckerhead (“an electric motor's junction or terminal connection box, where power cords are connected to the winding leads”).

Examples

  • He was a pecker for points, always finding a way to sneak in a high-value letter.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English pekker, equivalent to peck (“to pick at something in the manner of a bird”) + -er (“forming agent nouns”).

Synonyms

beak, bill, cock, dick, neb, nib, peckerwood, peter, prick, putz, shaft, tool, woodpecker, T-block, T-box, courage, nose, penis, pothead

Scrabble Score: 14

pecker: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
pecker: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pecker: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 16

pecker: valid Words With Friends Word