Kiss vs Peck - What's the difference?
kiss | peck |
(lb) To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to express love or affection or passion, or as part of a greeting.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:Hekissed her lips with such a clamorous smack, / That at the parting all the church echoed.
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ΒΆ, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.
(lb) To touch lightly or slightly; to come into contact.
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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:Like fire and powder, / Which as they kiss consume.
* (1809-1892)
*:Rose, rose and clematis, / Trail and twine and clasp and kiss .
(lb) Of two or more people, to touch each other's lips together, usually to express love or affection or passion.
(lb) To mark a cross (X) after one's name on a card, etc.
A touch with the lips, usually to express love or affection, or as a greeting.
An 'X' mark placed at the end of a letter or other type of message.
A type of filled chocolate candy, shaped as if someone had kissed the top. See (w, Hershey's Kisses).
To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird) or similar instrument.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) , Chapter 2
To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.
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 .
* Shakespeare
To do something in small, intermittent pieces.
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
One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts.
A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
* Milton
(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:
Discoloration caused by fungus growth or insects.
In transitive terms the difference between kiss and peck
is that kiss is to mark a cross (X) after one's name on a card, etc while peck is to form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.As a phrase KISS
is acronym of Keep it simple stupid|lang=en.As a proper noun Peck is
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English
Verb
(es)Synonyms
* to kiss each other (3) * to kiss one another (3) * See alsoNoun
(es)Derived terms
* ass kissing * blow a kiss * French kiss * good night kiss * kiss and cry * kiss and make up * kiss ass, kiss-ass * kiss chase * kiss goodbye * kisser * kiss my ass/kiss my arse * kiss of death * kiss off * kiss of life * kissogram * kiss the gunner's daughter * kiss the hem of someone's garment * kiss-up * kiss up * soul kiss * tongue kissSee also
* x * xo * xoxo * xoxoxo * xxxAnagrams
* (l) ----peck
English
(wikipedia peck)Etymology 1
From (etyl) pecken, pekken, variant of (etyl) picken, . More at pick.Verb
(en verb)- The birds pecked at their food.
- 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 peck a hole in a tree
- (Addison)
- This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons peas.
- He has been pecking away at that project for some time now.
- 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 * woodpeckerEtymology 2
Probably from (etyl) (pek), (pekke), of uncertain origin.Noun
(en noun)- They picked a peck of wheat.
- She figured most children probably ate a peck of dirt before they turned ten.
- a peck of uncertainties and doubts
Etymology 3
Variant of .Verb
(en verb)- 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
(-)- an occurrence of peck in rice