Peach vs Pech - What's the difference?
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A tree (), native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
(senseid) The soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed.
* 1915? , T S Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color.
(informal) A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
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The large, edible berry of the , a rubiaceous climbing shrub of west tropical Africa.
(colour) Of the color peach.
Particularly pleasing or agreeable.
(obsolete) To inform on someone; turn informer.
* Shakespeare
* 1916 , (James Joyce), ''(Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) (Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, 21)
* 1913 , (Rex Stout), Her Forbidden Knight , 1997 edition, ISBN 0786704446, page 123:
(obsolete) To inform against.
(Scotland, Northern England) To pant, to struggle for breath.
*1933 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Cloud Howe'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 321:
*:Then Chris saw Bruce, the porter, come in, with the mark on his jaw where his godfather hit him, then Leslie, the smith, paiching and sweating, he dropped his stick with an awful clatter.
*1955 , (Robin Jenkins), The Cone-Gatherers , Canongate 2012, p. 207:
*:When Graham reached him, however, he felt so exhausted he could not immediately explain; he had to sit on the ground, peching like a seal.
*1994 , (James Kelman), How Late it Was, How Late :
*:If he could just stop breathing and listen but he was peching too much from the climb.
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As verbs the difference between peach and pech
is that peach is to inform on someone; turn informer while pech is to pant, to struggle for breath.As a noun peach
is a tree (species: Prunus persica), native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.As an adjective peach
is (colour) Of the color peach.peach
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) peche, from (etyl) pesche (French: . See Perse.Noun
(wikipedia peach) (peaches)- Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare eat a peach ?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
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Adjective
Synonyms
* agreeable, fair, orange, paragon, rosyAntonyms
* disagreeable, foul, ugly, unpleasantDerived terms
* Indian peach * lesser peach tree borer * open peach * peachen * peaches and cream * peachlike * Peach Melba * peach palm * peachy * pickle peach * plum peach * press peachSee also
* laetrile * nectarine *Etymology 2
From (etyl) . See impeach.Verb
(es)- If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this.
- And his father had told him if he ever wanted anything to write home to him and, whatever he did, never to peach on a fellow.
- "Do you think we want to peach ? No, thank you. We may be none too good, but we won't hang a guy up, no matter who he is."
