peck

About 2.05 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird).

   The birds pecked at their food.

2. verb To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.

   to peck a hole in a tree

3. verb To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements.
4. verb To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.
5. verb To do something in small, intermittent pieces.

   He has been pecking away at that project for some time now.

6. verb To type by searching for each key individually.
7. verb To type in general.
8. verb To kiss briefly.

Similar words

peck at beak flock batch pot hatful stack nag pick wad

Often followed by

of and at on was the in to had

Word family

pecked pecking pecks