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Pecking vs Perking - What's the difference?

pecking | perking |

As verbs the difference between pecking and perking

is that pecking is present participle of lang=en while perking is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between pecking and perking

is that pecking is the act by which something is pecked while perking is the act of something being perked.

pecking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Derived terms

    * pecking order

    Noun

  • The act by which something is pecked.
    • the peckings of hungry chickens
  • The ancient skill of shaping stone into tools, containers, or artworks.

    • perking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something being perked.
  • * Basil King, The Street Called Straight
    • When seated the Marquise accompanied her words with little jerkings and perkings of her fluffy head, with wavings of the hands and rollings of the eyes — the corelatives of her dartings and dashings while on her feet.