Perk vs Peck - What's the difference?
perk | peck |
To become more lively or enthusiastic.
To exalt oneself; to bear oneself loftily.
* Barrow
To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of.
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 lang=en terms the difference between perk and peck
is that perk is to peer; to look inquisitively while peck is to type in general.As nouns the difference between perk and peck
is that perk is {{cx|informal|lang=en}} Perquisite while peck is an act of pecking.As verbs the difference between perk and peck
is that perk is shortened form of percolate while peck is to strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird) or similar instrument.As an adjective perk
is smart; trim; spruce; jaunty; vain.As a proper noun Peck is
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English
Etymology 1
From perquisite, by abbreviation.Alternative forms
* (l) (less common)Etymology 2
From percolate (verb) and percolator (noun), by abbreviation.Etymology 3
The origin is .Verb
(en verb)- to perk over them
- to perk''' the ears; to '''perk up one's head
- (Cowper)
- (Sherburne)
Derived terms
* perk up * perkyEtymology 4
The origin is .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
