Peck vs Reck - What's the difference?
peck | reck |
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.
To make account of; to care for; to heed; to regard; consider.
* Sir Philip Sidney
* Burns
* 1603 , William Shakespeare, "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark", Act 1, Scene 3:
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* 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
To care; to matter.
* 1822 , John E. Hall (ed.), The Port Folio , vol. XIV
* 1900 , , Villanelle of Marguerite's , lines 10-11
*:She knows us not, nor recks if she enthrall
*:With voice and eyes and fashion of her hair
To concern, to be important
* Milton
(obsolete) To think.
As a proper noun peck
is .As a noun reck is
back or reck can be .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
Derived terms
* peckyEtymology 5
reck
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- this son of mine not recking danger
- And may you better reck the rede / Than ever did the adviser.
- Ophelia:
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
And recks not his own rede.
- Little recked he perhaps for what she felt, that dull aching void in her heart sometimes, piercing to the core.
- Little thou reck'st [2] of this sad store!
- Would thou might never reck [1] them more!
- It recks not!
- What recks it them?