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peach | white |

As a noun peach

is (us|informal) a native or resident of georgia in the united states.

As a proper noun white is

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peach

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) peche, from (etyl) pesche (French: . See Perse.

Noun

(wikipedia peach) (peaches)
  • 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
    • Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare eat a peach ?
    I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
  • A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color.
  • (informal) A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=September 15 , author=Amy Lawrence , title=Arsenal's Gervinho enjoys the joy of six against lowly Southampton , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=Arsenal's dominance was reflected in a flurry of goals before half-time – three in six minutes: first, Podolski turned the screw with a peach of a free-kick; then Gervinho accelerated on to Mikel Arteta's beautifully crafted pass and beat Davis at his near post with conviction; and finally Southampton's defence unspooled completely when Gervinho broke to release Gibbs, whose return ball cannoned off Nathaniel Clyne for Southampton's second own goal of a sobering afternoon.}}
  • The large, edible berry of the , a rubiaceous climbing shrub of west tropical Africa.

    • Adjective

  • (colour) Of the color peach.
  • Particularly pleasing or agreeable.
    • Synonyms
    * agreeable, fair, orange, paragon, rosy
    Antonyms
    * disagreeable, foul, ugly, unpleasant
    Derived terms
    * Indian peach * lesser peach tree borer * open peach * peachen * peaches and cream * peachlike * Peach Melba * peach palm * peachy * pickle peach * plum peach * press peach

    See also

    * laetrile * nectarine *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . See impeach.

    Verb

    (es)
  • (obsolete) To inform on someone; turn informer.
  • * Shakespeare
    • If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this.
  • * 1916 , (James Joyce), ''(Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) (Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, 21)
    • 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.
  • * 1913 , (Rex Stout), Her Forbidden Knight , 1997 edition, ISBN 0786704446, page 123:
    • "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."
  • (obsolete) To inform against.
    • Synonyms
    * (intransitive) sing, squeal, tattle
    Antonyms
    * hide * keep secret

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    white

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l), (l) (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
  • * (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)
    • white as the whitest lily on a stream.
  • * 1962' (quoting '''1381 text), (Hans Kurath) & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., ''(Middle English Dictionary) , Ann Arbor, Mich.: (University of Michigan Press), , page 1242:
    • dorr?&
  • 773;, d?r? adj. & n. toste wyte bred and do yt in dischis, and god Almande mylk.
  • Of the Caucasian race.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1949, chapter=The Green Book, author=Wendell P. Alston, page=3
    • , title=The Negro Motorist Green Book, edition=1949, location=New York, publisher=Victor H. Green , passage=
  • Designated for use by Caucasians.
  • Relatively light or pale in colour.
  • Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc.
  • * (Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
    • Or whispering with white lips, "The foe! / They come! they come!"
  • (label) Containing cream, milk or creamer.
  • The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.
  • Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
  • * :
    • NOw rydeth Galahalt yet withouten shelde / and so rode four dayes without ony aduenture / And at the fourth day after euensonge / he came to a whyte Abbay / and there was he receyued with grete reuerence / and ledde vnto a chambre / and there was he vnarmed / And thenne was he ware of knyghtes of the table round
  • Honourable, fair; decent.
  • * (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
    • White as thy fame, and as thy honour clear.
  • * (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
    • No whiter page than Addison's remains.
  • *
  • * 1953 , (Raymond Chandler), The Long Goodbye , Penguin, 2010, p.12:
  • *:‘We've only met twice and you've been more than white to me both times.’
  • *
  • Lacking coloration from ultraviolet light.
  • Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
    • Your high engendered battles 'gainst a head / So old and white as this.
  • (label) Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favourable.
  • * Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
    • On the whole, however, the dominie reckoned this as one of the white days of his life.
  • (label) Regarded with especial favour; favourite; darling.
  • * (Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)
    • Come forth, my white spouse.
  • * (1586-c.1639)
    • I am his white boy, and will not be gulled.
  • (label) Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.
  • * 1932 , (Duff Cooper), Talleyrand , Folio Society, 2010, p.163:
    • Aimée de Coigny had always adopted with enthusiasm the political views of her ruling lover and she had thus already held nearly every shade of opinion from red republicanism to white reaction.

    Antonyms

    * (bright and colourless) black, nonwhite, unwhite * (of coffee) black * (lacking coloration) tanned

    Synonyms

    * (lacking coloration) fair, pale

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The color/colour of snow or milk; the colour of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
  • A Caucasian person.
  • The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).
  • (anatomy) The sclera, white of the eye.
  • Any butterfly of the Pieris genus.
  • (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The cue ball in cue games.
  • (countable, and, uncountable) wine.
  • * {{quote-song
    • , year = 1977 , title = (Scenes from an Italian Restaurant) , composer = (Billy Joel) , album = , passage = A bottle of red, a bottle of white / It all depends upon your appetite / I'll meet you any time you want / In our Italian Restaurant. }}
  • (slang) Street name for cocaine.
  • (archery) The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot.
  • * Shakespeare
    • 'Twas I won the wager, though you hit the white .
  • A white pigment.
    • Venice white

    Derived terms

    (terms derived from "white") * black-and-white * egg white * flake white * flat white * great white shark * honorary white * Large White * non-white * off-white,offwhite * snow-white * Snow White * titanium white * white heat * white admiral * white alkali * white area * white as a sheet * white as driven snow * white ash * white as snow * White Australia Policy * white bacon * white bear * white belt * white blood cell * white book * white bread * white bryony * white cell * white chip * white Chirstmas * white chocolate * white cloud * white clover * white coal * white corpuscle * white crappie * white currant * white dwarf * white elephant * White Ensign * white feather * white fish * white flag * white flight * white flour * white fox * white frost * white gasoline * white gold * white goods * white gum * white hole * white hope * white horse * White House * white hunter * white knight * white lady * white lead * white leather * white lie * white light * white lightning * white lime * white line * white list * white magic * white man * white marlin * white matter * white meat * white metal * white mica * white mustard * white night * white noise * white out * white pages * white pepper * white pointer * white power * white pudding * white radish * white rice * white room * white rust * white sale * white sapphire * White Sea * white sheep * white-shoe * white space * white spirit * white stick * white sugar * white tie * white vitriol * white water * white wedding * white witch * whitebait * whitebeam * whiteboard * white-bread * white-breasted sea eagle * whitecap * whitecoat * white-collar * white-collar crime * white-collar worker * white-crowned sparrow * whitecurrant * whitedamp * white-eye * whiteface * white-faced * white-faced heron * whitefly * white-footed mouse * white-glove building * white-haired * white-headed * white-hot * white-knuckle * white-kuckle ride * white-livered * whitely * whiten * whiteness * white-out * whiter than white * whites * white-shoe firm * white-sided dolphin * whitesmith * white-tablecloth restaurant * whitethroat * white-tie * whitewall * whitewall tire * whitewash * whitewater rafting * whitish

    See also

    * * leucite * leukoma * leukosis * Sauvignon blanc * Svetambara * terra alba * (Race)

    Verb

    (whit)
  • To make white; to whiten; to bleach.
    • Whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of uncleanness. — Matthew xxiii. 27.
    So as no fuller on earth can white them. — Mark ix. 3.

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