Etymology

peachy

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Today it means: Resembling a peach, peach-like. Full definition →

English peach ← Middle English peche ← Old French pesche
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The story

  1. Latinpersicus
  2. Latinpersicum
  3. Late Latinpersica
  4. Vulgar Latin*pessica
  5. Old Frenchpesche
  6. Middle Englishpeche
  7. Englishpeach
  8. English todaypeachy

From peach + -y.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.