Etymology

pecker

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Today it means: Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly Full definition →

Middle English pekker ← Old English *piccian ← Proto-West Germanic *pikkōn
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  1. Proto-Germanic*pikkōną
  2. Proto-West Germanic*pikkōn
  3. Old English*piccian
  4. Middle Englishpiken
  5. Middle Englishpekken
  6. Middle Englishpekker
  7. English todaypecker

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

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