Peck

Definitions: Peck

Peck

Noun

1. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent: "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty".

2. A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons.

3. A United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches.

Verb

1. Hit lightly with a picking motion.

2. Eat by pecking at; of birds.

3. Kiss lightly.

4. Eat like a bird.

5. Bother persistently with trivial complaints; "She nags her husband all day long".

Date "peck" was first used: 13th century. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Food & Agriculture	Showing signs of decay(timber)(1). Source: European Union. (references)
	Any rot in wood localised in small areas, generally forming rounded or lens-shaped cavities. Source: European Union. (references)
Literature	Peck (A). Some food. "To have a peck," is to have something to eat. Peckish. Hungry, or desirous of something to eat. Of course "peck" refers to fowls, etc., which peck their food. "When shall I feel peckish again."- Disraeli: Sybil, book vi. chap. iii. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Meteorology & Standards	Either of two units of dry capacity equal to 1/4 bushel. Source: European Union. (references)
Slang in 1811	PECK. Victuals. Peck and booze; victuals and drink. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A peck is an Imperial unit and U.S. customary unit of dry volume, equivalent in each of these systems to 8 dry quarts, or 16 dry pints. (Note that in the U.S. Customary system a dry measure is not the same as wet measure: for example, a dry pint is not the same as a wet pint. The imperial peck is different to the US Customary peck.) Four pecks make a bushel.

The peck occurs in such phrases as "eat a peck of dirt before you die" or "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers". Apples are still sold in baskets amounting to a peck in the United States, but the term "peck" is not commonly used.

Gregory Peck was an American actor.

Synonyms: Peck

Synonyms: batch (n), deal (n), flock (n), good deal (n), great deal (n), hatful (n), heap (n), lot (n), mass (n), mess (n), mickle (n), mint (n), muckle (n), pile (n), plenty (n), pot (n), quite a little (n), raft (n), sight (n), slew (n), spate (n), stack (n), tidy sum (n), wad (n), whole lot (n), whole slew (n), beak (v), hen-peck (v), nag (v), peck at (v), pick (v), pick at (v), pick up (v), smack (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Adversity	Noun: adversity, evil; failure; bad luck, ill luck, evil luck, adverse luck, hard fortune, hard hap, hard luck, hard lot; frowns of fortune; evil dispensation, evil star, evil genius; vicissitudes of life, ups and downs of life, broken fortunes; hard case, hard lines, hard life; sea of troubles; peck of troubles; hell upon earth; slough of despond.
Artlessness	Verb: be artless; adj; look one in the face; wear one's heart upon his sleeves for daws to peck at; think aloud; speak out, speak one's mind; be free with one, call a spade a spade.
Difficulty	Scrape, hobble, slough, quagmire, hot water, hornet's nest; sea of troubles, peck of troubles; pretty kettle of fish; pickle, stew, imbroglio, mess, ado; false position.
Disapprobation	Scoff at, point at; twit, taunt; (disrespect); sneer at; (despise); satirize, lampoon; defame; (detract); depreciate, find fault with, criticize, cut up; pull to pieces, pick to pieces; take exception; cavil; peck at, nibble at, carp at; be censorious; Adjective: pick holes, pick a hole, pick a hole in one's coat; make a fuss about.
Food	Verb: eat, feed, fare, devour, swallow, take; gulp, bolt, snap; fall to; despatch, dispatch; discuss; take down, get down, gulp down; lay in, tuck in; lick, pick, peck; gormandize; bite, champ, munch, cranch, craunch, crunch, chew, masticate, nibble, gnaw, mumble.
Greatness	Great quantity, quantity, deal, power, sight, pot, volume, world; mass, heap; (assemblage); stock; (store); peck, bushel, load, cargo; cartload, wagonload, shipload; flood, spring tide; abundance; (sufficiency).
Multitude	Noun: multitude; numerous; Adjective: numerosity, numerality; multiplicity; profusion; (plenty); legion, host; great number, large number, round number, enormous number; a quantity, numbers, array, sight, army, sea, galaxy; scores, peck, bushel, shoal, swarm, draught, bevy, cloud, flock, herd, drove, flight, covey, hive, brood, litter, farrow, fry, nest; crowd; (assemblage); lots; all in the world and his wife.
Pain	Hell upon earth; iron age, reign of terror; slough of despond; (adversity); peck of troubles; "ills that flesh is heir to"; (evil); miseries of human life; "unkindest cut of all".
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Peck

English words defined with "peck": Absolute terms ♦ Binary arithmetic ♦ Complex fraction, Concrete quantity ♦ Dry measure ♦ Modius ♦ peck at, Pecked, Pecking ♦ Reclining dial ♦ Surveyor general ♦ To peck at ♦ Unit of measure ♦ Verification of an equation ♦ Warped surface. (references)

Specialty definitions using "peck": Buncle ♦ Dunmow ♦ GRUNTING PECK ♦ LL ♦ Myron ♦ RUM RUFF PECK ♦ Uncumber. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Help! There's a peck with an acorn pointed at me! (Willow; writing credit: Bob Dolman; George Lucas) How do you do? I'm Peck Loukinpaugh. (The Cheap Detective; writing credit: Neil Simon)
Tongue Twisters	If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick? (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	A Peck of Trouble (1968) Peck Your Own Home (1960) A Peck o' Trouble (1953) Born to Peck (1952) Peck Up Your Troubles (1945)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	14 Peck Slip (reference) Further Along the Road Less Traveled: 'Going to Omaha': M. Scott Peck, M.D. Speaks on: The Issue of Death and Meaning [UNABRIDGED] (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The South Pole dining room with station leader Ron Peck standing; Daryl Leed seated on the right.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.		Plate 2 of "Description of four remarkable Fishes, taken near the Piscataqua in New Hampshire" by William Peck. 1804. In: "Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Vol. II. - Part II. Page 56.Credit: Treasures of the Library.
	Figure 32. Plankton bottle devised by James I. Peck of Williams College, Massachusetts, and Nathan R. Harrington of Columbia University, New York, in 1896. It was used to collect plankton, both animal and vegetable, at various depths. It was first used in 1896 at the entrance to Puget Sound, Washington, at 5 levels up to 205 meters depth.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.		Medium shot of Brodiaea leachiae peck.Credit: John Craig.
	Leaving Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 1929. Photographed by Chief Quartermaster Peck.Credit: NAVY.		David Peck Todd, half-length portrait, seated, facing left.Credit: Library of Congress.
	The Navy's first full-pressure flight suit successfully demonstrated at 70,000 ft. altitude protects the pilot above, where lack of pressure is fatal in a few seconds. LCDR. Harry Peck demonstrated the suit.Credit: Library of Congress.		Str. Richard Peck, [New Haven Line].Credit: Library of Congress.
	Wheeler, Montana. Boom town of the Fort Peck construction era, now nearly deserted.Credit: Library of Congress.		Peck & Peck, business on Northern Blvd., Manhasset, Long Island. Exterior.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Play	Caption
	Ante; plastic; clink; pile; piling; accumulation; aggregate; aggregation; amassment; assemblage; bank; barrel; buildup; chunk; collection; conglomeration; gob; great deal; hill; hoard; hunk; jumble; lump; mass; mound; oodles; pack; peck; pyramid; quantity.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Desiderius Erasmus	A peck of troubles.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	I doubt if Flying Childers ever carried a peck of corn to mill.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	LL.D. Letters indicating the degree Legumptionorum Doctor, one learned in laws, gifted with legal gumption. Some suspicion is cast upon this derivation by the fact that the title was formerly LL.d., and conferred only upon gentlemen distinguished for their wealth. At the date of this writing Columbia University is considering the expediency of making another degree for clergymen, in place of the old D.D. -- Damnator Diaboli. The new honor will be known as Sanctorum Custus, and written $$c. The name of the Rev. John Satan has been suggested as a suitable recipient by a lover of consistency, who points out that Professor Harry Thurston Peck has long enjoyed the advantage of a degree.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Peck" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 52.11% of the time. "Peck" is used about 284 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	52.11%	148	25,903
Noun (singular)	24.65%	70	39,981
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	18.66%	53	46,657
Lexical Verb (base form)	3.87%	11	106,044
Noun (common)	0.7%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	284	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "peck" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Peck	Last name	15,000	795
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

1. Peck, ID (city, FIPS 61840)
Location: 46.47387 N, 116.42409 W
Population (1990): 160 (84 housing units)
Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 83545
Country: USA

2. Peck, KS
Zip Code(s): 67120
Country: USA

3. Peck, MI (village, FIPS 63260)
Location: 43.25907 N, 82.81651 W
Population (1990): 558 (233 housing units)
Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 48466
Country: USA

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Expressions: Peck

Expressions using "peck": a peck of trouble ♦ a peck of troubles ♦ Fort Peck ♦ give a quick peck ♦ peck a hole ♦ peck at ♦ peck at smb. ♦ peck of troubles ♦ peck out ♦ To peck at. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "peck": peck-order, peck-owned.
	Ending with "peck": bird-peck, hen-peck.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Peck

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
gregory peck	4,091	richard peck	37
peck	324	ethan peck	36
cecilia peck	239	m scott peck	33
anthony peck	231	film gregory peck	33
gregory movie peck	156	gregory obituary peck	32
biography gregory peck	148	scott peck	32
join peck power	105	filmography gregory peck	31
die gregory peck	99	fort peck	31
austin peck	91	dead gregory peck	25
jonathan peck	81	cecelia peck	25
death gregory peck	76	pat peck nissan	22
gregory peck picture	74	died gregory peck	22
funeral gregory peck	73	karen peck	22
gregory peck photo	57	child gregory peck	21
tony peck	54	bio gregory peck	20
bob peck	53	j eddie peck	19
peck veronique	45	jonathan peck suicide	19
actor gregory peck	44	gergory peck	18
fort peck montana	40	weiss peck greer	17
greg peck	38	gregory peck wife	17
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Peck

Language		Translations for "peck"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		Puth Nxitimthi, Vrimë (aperture, bore, dump, ear, excavation, eye, eyehole, eyelet, gap, hole, leak, mesh, mortise, mouth, notch, notching, nozzle, open, opening, orifice, perforation, pinhole, prick, puncture, recession, rent, shell-hole, slit, slot, tear, vent, venthole), Shumë (amount, awful, awfully, badly, confoundedly, considerably, consumedly, damnably, dearly, deep, deuced, devilish, ever so, far, far and away, good few, greatly, heap, heartily, highly, jolly, largely, like mad, lot, lots of, lump, many, million, most, much, no end of, not a few, notedly, number, oodles, passing, passingly, poly-, precious, price, proceeds, quantum, quite, really, remarkably, scrip, so, sorely, sum, summation, thumping, too, tot, total, totality, umpteen, vastly, very, very much, widely), Qortoj (admonish, berate, call down, carpet, castigate, chide, come down on, correct, damn, decry, discommend, dish it out, knock, lecture, light into, pull up, rap, rebuke, reprehend, reproach, reprove, scold, take to task, tell off, trim, twit, upbraid), Një Mal, Masë Drithi, Hap Me Sqep, Ha Maja-maja (pick), E Puthur Nxitimthi, Çukitje, Çukit, Çukis. (various references)

Arabic		‏مقياس الجفاف, ‏هاجم (assault, attack, batter, belabour, beset, challenge, charge, contravene, dispute, hit, jump, lace, layabout, light into, mount an offensive, press, prey on, prong, rush, set about, storm, strafe, strike), ‏نقر (drum, flip, gouge, percuss, plunk, prickle, tap, tapping), ‏نخز (prick), ‏قضم برفق, ‏تقبيل على عجل, ‏إنتقد (carp, criticize, fault, find fault, lace, maul, nibble, quarrel, slash, slate, snipe, stricture, taking apart, upbraid), ‏إلتقط بالمنقار, ‏أقلق (agitate, beset, concern, disconcert, disquiet, distress, disturb, ferret, fret, fuss, hop, molest, obsess, perturb, rile, shake up, spook, torment, trouble, undo, unhinge, unsettle, upset, worry), ‏أزعج (ail, annoy, beset, bother, burn, discompose, disquiet, disrupt, distress, disturb, get in the way, get on smb.'s nerves, gig, gnaw, grate, hamper, harass, importune, incommode, inconvenience, infest, intrude, irk, irritate, jolt, molest, nag, niggle, obsess, offend, pain, peeve, perturb, pester, plague, possess, prickle, put out, rasp, rattle, ruffle, saddle, torment, trouble, upset, vex), ‏ثقب (aperture, bore, broach, drill, hole, hull, orifice, perforate, perforation, pick holes in smth., pierce, prick, prickle, punch, puncture, tear, vent). (various references)

Bulgarian		ям Малко, Къртя, Кълва, Копая, Клъвване, Клъввам, Много, Множество, Заяждам Се (Bicker), Едва Се �"окосвам, Храна (Tucker), �"олямо Количество, Белег От Клъвване, Целувчица, Целувам Леко. (various references)

Chinese		啄 (Pecked, Pecking). (various references)

Czech		Polibek (kiss), Zobat, Spousta (crowd, heap, heaps of, host, legion, load, lots, pack, plenty, spate, stack, volume), Letmo Políbit, Klovnutí, Klovat, Dutá Míra, Ïobat. (various references)

Danish		kammerråd (peckiness, pocket rot, white pocket), hulråd (peckiness, pocket rot, white pocket). (various references)

Dutch		celvormige vervuring van hout (peckiness, pocket rot, white pocket). (various references)

Farsi		یک چهارم بوشل , نوک زدن , نوک زدگی , سوراخ (Bore, Hole, Leak, Mesh, Orifice, Outage, Overture, Pigenhole, Puncture), دندان زدن , بانوک سوراخ کردن . (various references)

Finnish		kololaho (peckiness, pocket rot, white pocket). (various references)

French		Picotin. (various references)

German		Picken (pick). (various references)

Greek		κυψελωτή σήψις ξυλείας (peckiness, pocket rot, white pocket), όέτρο Στερεών 8.8 χιλιογράμμων, όονάδα όέτρου Στερεών, Τσιμπώ (Nick), Τσίμπημα � τηνού, ίτυπώ όε Το Ράμφοσ. (various references)

Hebrew		ּ�"קיש ֱמקור, ּ� שק ַטופות, ּ� קר, ּ� בור, ִקש�", ׀קור. (various references)

Hungarian		Halom (accumulation, batch, clamp, clump, congeries, conglomerate, cop, dump, heap, hillock, mass, mound, pile, stack, tump), Csípés (bite, dig, pinch, sting, tingle, tweak). (various references)

Indonesian		takar, mematuk. (various references)

Italian		marciume alveolare (peckiness, pocket rot, white pocket), Dare Un Bacetto, carie alveolare (peckiness, pocket rot, white pocket), Beccata (dab), Beccare (get, peck at, pick up), Bacetto. (various references)

Manx		tubbag (bushel, tub), spulgey (nipping, pecking, pick out; pinching, pinch, pluck out), spulg (nip, pinch), spolgey (chip off, chipping, nip, nip off, pinch), spolg (nip, pinch), kishan (skep, skip), cur paagag da. (various references)

Pig Latin		eckpay

Portuguese		podridão alveolar (peckiness, pocket rot, white pocket), Picar Com O Bico, Montão (accumulation, congeries, crowd, Dolly, heap, mass, multitude, pile, Rick, ruck, stack), Javali Americano, Grande Quantidade (a lot of, considerable, galosh, infirm, lots, million, mort, much, oolite, pockety, prog, raft, regiment, sea, shoal, sight, stack, thickness, ton, tonne, torrent, wilderness), Grande Número (many, multiplier, raft, regiment), Furar Com O Bico, Debicar, Dar Bicadas Em, Conseguir Dando Bicadas, Comida (board, cheer, dietary, eating, fare, food, meal, prog, scoff, tuck, Tucker), Bicada (nip), Apanhar Com O Bico, Alimento (aliment, alimony, bread, combustible, diet, eating, feed, food, fuel, keeping, nosh, nourishment, nutrition, pabulum, pension, provender, sustenance, victual). (various references)

Romanian		Scobi (cave, dig, groove, gutter, hew out, hole, hollow, pick, recess), Sãruta În Grabã, Sãrut Dat În Grabã, Sãrut Dat În Fugã, Sãpa Cu Târnãcopul, Mulţime (accumulation, army, array, body, boodle, cloud, cluster, concourse, crowd, dozen, drove, fifty, flock, forest, generality, heap, herd, hive, host, huddle, lashing, manifold, mass, mob, multitude, muster, number, pile, plenty, populace, press, quantity, rabble, ream, shoal, sight, squash, stack, swarm, throng), Mânca Puţin (pick), Lovi Cu Ciocul (peck at), Grãmadã (aheap, assemblage, batch, block, bulk, clamp, clump, cluster, cob, collection, congeries, crowd, drift, flock, heap, host, hulk, load, lump, mass, mountain, multitude, ocean, pack, pile, power, shoal, snag, stack, throng, ton, wilderness of), Ciugulire, Ciuguli (nibble, nip, pick, pick up, piddle, preen), Ciocãnire, Ciocãni (drum, hammer, knock, peen, pelt, pound, rap). (various references)

Russian		четверть Бушеля, Пища, Куча (Hill), Копать Киркой, Копать, Клевок, Клевать, Множество, Масса, Легкий Поцелуй, �"олбить, Бросать �'перед. (various references)

Scottish		peic (a peck). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pozobati, poljubiti (buss, kiss, lip, osculate), poljubac (buss, kiss, osculation, smacker), zobati, kvocati, kljuvati, kljuvanje, kljucati (pickax), jedinica za merenje žita. (various references)

Spanish		Picotazo. (various references)

Swedish		Picka (pick). (various references)

Turkish		Yemek (chow, crop, dine off, dine on, dinner, dish, eat, feed, food, grub, ingest, meal, repast, scoff, scran), Yaklaşık Dokuz Litrelik Kuru Ölçü, Yığın (accumulation, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregation, bank, batch, budget, bulk, bundle, cartload, chunk, clamp, clump, collection, congeries, conglomerate, conglomeration, crowd, drove, flock, force, heap, Hill, huddle, lump, mass, mound, pack, pile, raft, slew, stack, swarm, tons, volume, wilderness), Sivri Birşeyle Vurmak, Resmi Öpücük, Gagalamak, Gagalama (pecking), Gaga Ýzi, Azar Azar Yemek, Çeyrek Kilelik Ölçü. (various references)

Turkmen		зokmak (bite, pick), зokalamak. (various references)

Ukranian		Пек, Клювок, Клювати, �"овбати, Безліч, Цмокнути, Слід Уколу. (various references)

Vietnamese		vô khối (ocean), thùng (box, bucket, cask, tank), thức nhậu, thức đớp, cú mổ. (various references)

Welsh		pigo (pick, prick, sting), hobaid. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Peck

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	arod, arodi, modii, modiis, modio, modioli, modiorum, modios, modius, nemrod, rodebant, rosae, rosam, rosarum, rosis. (various references)
Middle English	1100-1500	jobben. (various references)
Middle High German	1100-1500	pekken. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Peck

Derivations
	Words beginning with "peck": pecked, pecker, peckers, peckerwood, peckerwoods, peckier, peckiest, pecking, peckish, pecks, pecky. (additional references)
	Words ending with "peck": copeck, flyspeck, henpeck, kopeck, speck. (additional references)
	Words containing "peck": copecks, flyspecked, flyspecking, flyspecks, henpecked, henpecking, henpecks, kenspeckle, kopecks, oxpecker, oxpeckers, specked, specking, speckle, speckled, speckles, speckling, specks, woodpecker, woodpeckers. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Peck" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apack, Eccc, eck, ekk, epack, epc, Epca, epock, feck, iecc, Pakok, pax, pce, Peack, pec, peca, Pecca, pece, pech, peci, Pecke, pecky, peco, pect, pecu, peec, peeik, peik, pek, Peke, Pelco, pelk, pemco, Penk, Petko, pex, picc, Pieck, pinck, pisk, piuck, pixk, plc, Poeck, preck, Pucik, Pyck. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Peck"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "peck" (pronounced pe"k)
3	p e" k	pech, spec, speck.
2	-e" k	Beck, bedeck, check, deck, Exec, feck, Fleck, geck, heck, Keck, Lech, lek, neck, rec, recheck, reck, sec, trek, wreck.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Peck

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-k-p"
	-1 letter: cep, kep, pec.
	-2 letters: pe.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-k-p"
	+1 letter: pecks, pecky, speck.
	+2 letters: copeck, kopeck, packed, packer, packet, pecked, pecker, picked, picker, picket, pickle, pocked, pocket, pucker, repack, specks.
	+3 letters: checkup, copecks, cowpoke, cupcake, cuplike, henpeck, ketchup, kneecap, kopecks, package, packers, packets, packmen, pancake, peacock, peckers, peckier, pecking, peckish, petcock, pickaxe, pickeer, pickers, pickets, pickier, pickled, pickles, placket, plucked, plucker, pockets, pockier, precook, prepack, prerock, pricked, pricker, pricket, prickle, puckers, puckery, repacks, skeptic, spackle, specked, speckle, wickape.
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