English Dictionary

pecker

/ˈpɛkə(ɹ)/

noun

(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:

The woodpecker pecked at the tree trunk.

意味（1）

(uncommon or regional) Any tool used in a pecking fashion, particularly kinds of hoes or pickaxes.

The women with short peckers or parers,... of a foote long and about fiue inches in breadth: doe onely breake the vpper part of the ground to rayse vp the weedes, grasse, & old stubbes of corne stalkes with their rootes... For their corne,... with a pecker they make a hole, wherein they put foure graines.

意味（2）

(uncommon) Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion, particularly:

The upper end of the finger o carries a pecker p, which consists of a hardened steel piece with a V edge. This pecker is engaged by any one of several steps or notches in a stepped block m carried by the rocking lever l.

意味（3）

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

The Titmouse, and the Peckers hungry Brood.

意味（4）

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

He's a rare pecker.

意味（5）

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

Pecker, a bird's bill

意味（6）

(chiefly US, regional, slang) A penis; cock, dick.

The penis... pecker.

意味（7）

(UK colloquial, by extension of the sense ‘beak’) A nose.

意味（8）

(UK colloquial, by extension, from the expression ‘keep one's pecker up’) Spirits, nerve, courage.

Mr. King... misstated the fact in saying that he had put a piece of lighted paper to the master's nose while asleep in that house; it was his hot pipe that he applied to the sleeper's nostrils, at the same time crying: Come, old chap, keep your pecker up.

意味（9）

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

These peckers know that as well as me.

意味（10）

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

Goddammit! I give you peckers an inch and you automatically take a mile […]

意味（11）

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