peck

peck · verb, noun¹

1. Middle English · inherited frompiken
2. Middle English · inherited frompecken
3. English todaypeck

From Middle English pecken, pekken, variant of Middle English piken, picken, pikken (“to pick, use a pointed implement”). More at pick.

peck · noun²

1. Anglo-Norman · derived frompek
2. English todaypeck

Probably from Anglo-Norman pek, pekke, of uncertain origin.

peck · verb³

Variant of pick (“to throw”).

Peck · proper noun⁴

* As an English surname, variant of Speake with loss of the initial letter. * Also as an English (and sometimes Irish) surname, variant of Peak, Petch, Peach. * As a south German surname, variant of Beck. Compare Pek, also found in Poland. * As a Dutch and north German surname, from pek (“pitch, tar, resin”). * As a Hungarian, Czech, Polish, Serbo-Croatian and Slovene surname, Americanized and Germanized from Pek, Pék meaning "baker," itself ultimately from the German verb backen.

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