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Gecked vs Pecked - What's the difference?

gecked | pecked |

As verbs the difference between gecked and pecked

is that gecked is (geck) while pecked is (peck).

gecked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (geck)

    • geck

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • scorn; derision; contempt
  • (archaic, pejorative) Fool; idiot; imbecile
  • * Shakespeare
    • To become the geck and scorn / O' the other's villainy.
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1859 , year_published=2010 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=George Eliot , title=Adam Bede , chapter=IX Hetty's World citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page= , passage= … for where’s the use of a woman having brains of her own if she’s tackled to a geck as everybody’s a-laughing at? }}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To jeer; to show contempt.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)
  • To cheat or trick.
    • (Johnson)

    References

    * Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia * (Webster)

    pecked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (peck)

    • peck

    English

    (wikipedia peck)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) pecken, pekken, variant of (etyl) picken, . More at pick.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird) or similar instrument.
    • The birds pecked at their food.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) , Chapter 2
    • The rooster had been known to fly on her shoulder and peck her neck, so that now she carried a stick or took one of the children with her when she went to feed the fowls.
  • To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.
    • to peck a hole in a tree
  • To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements.
  • To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up .
    • (Addison)
  • * Shakespeare
    • This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons peas.
  • To do something in small, intermittent pieces.
    • He has been pecking away at that project for some time now.
  • To type by searching for each key individually.
  • (rare) To type in general.
  • To kiss briefly.
  • * 1997 , , (w, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) , Chapter 1; 1998 ed., Scholastic Press, ISBN 0-590-35340-3, p. 2
    • At half past eight, Mr. Dursley picked up his briefcase, pecked Mrs. Dursley on the cheek, and tried to kiss Dudley good-bye but missed, because Dudley was now having a tantrum and throwing his cereal at the walls.
    Derived terms
    * pecking order * peckish * woodpecker

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of pecking.
  • A small kiss.

    • Etymology 2

    Probably from (etyl) (pek), (pekke), of uncertain origin.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts.
    • They picked a peck of wheat.
  • A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
    • She figured most children probably ate a peck of dirt before they turned ten.
  • * Milton
    • a peck of uncertainties and doubts

    Etymology 3

    Variant of .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (regional) To throw.
  • To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of teh flat of the foot.
  • * 1928 , (Siegfried Sassoon), Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man , Penguin 2013, p. 97:
    • Anyhow, one of them fell, another one pecked badly, and Jerry disengaged himself from the group to scuttle up the short strip of meadow to win by a length.

    Etymology 4

    Noun

    (-)
  • Discoloration caused by fungus growth or insects.
    • an occurrence of peck in rice
    Derived terms
    * pecky

    Etymology 5

    Noun

    (en noun)
    • English transitive verbs