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PECKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pecker mean? 

PECKER (noun)
  The noun PECKER has 3 senses:

1. obscene terms for penisplay

2. bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insectsplay

3. horny projecting mouth of a birdplay

  Familiarity information: PECKER used as a noun is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


PECKER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Obscene terms for penis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

cock; dick; pecker; prick; putz; shaft; tool

Hypernyms ("pecker" is a kind of...):

member; penis; phallus (the male sex organ ('member' is a euphemism))

Domain usage:

dirty word; filth; obscenity; smut; vulgarism (an offensive or indecent word or phrase)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

pecker; peckerwood; woodpecker

Hypernyms ("pecker" is a kind of...):

piciform bird (any of numerous nonpasserine insectivorous climbing birds usually having strong bills for boring wood)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pecker"):

green woodpecker; Picus viridis (woodpecker of Europe and western Asia)

downy woodpecker (small North American woodpecker with black and white plumage and a small bill)

flicker (North American woodpecker)

Campephilus principalis; ivory-billed woodpecker; ivorybill (large black-and-white woodpecker of southern United States and Cuba having an ivory bill; nearly extinct)

Melanerpes erythrocephalus; redhead; redheaded woodpecker (black-and-white North American woodpecker having a red head and neck)

sapsucker (small American woodpecker that feeds on sap from e.g. apple and maple trees)

wryneck (Old World woodpecker with a peculiar habit of twisting the neck)

piculet (small woodpeckers of South America and Africa and East Indies having soft rounded tail feathers)

Holonyms ("pecker" is a member of...):

family Picidae; Picidae (woodpeckers)


Sense 3

Meaning:

Horny projecting mouth of a bird

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

beak; bill; neb; nib; pecker

Hypernyms ("pecker" is a kind of...):

mouth (the externally visible part of the oral cavity on the face and the system of organs surrounding the opening)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pecker"):

cere (the fleshy, waxy covering at the base of the upper beak of some birds)

Holonyms ("pecker" is a part of...):

bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)

Derivation:

peck (eat by pecking at, like a bird)

peck (hit lightly with a picking motion)


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