Peck

proper nounattested in dialogue

A surname.

proper noun

1
A surname.
2
A place in the United States: A city in Idaho.
3
A place in the United States: An unincorporated community in Sedgwick County and Sumner County, Kansas.
4
A place in the United States: A village in Michigan.
5
A place in the United States: A town in Wisconsin.

Etymology

* As an English surname, variant of Speake with loss of the initial letter. * Also as an English (and sometimes Irish) surname, variant of Peak, Petch, Peach. * As a south German surname, variant of Beck. Compare Pek, also found in Poland. * As a Dutch and north German surname, from pek (“pitch, tar, resin”). * As a Hungarian, Czech, Polish, Serbo-Croatian and Slovene surname, Americanized and Germanized from Pek, Pék meaning "baker," itself ultimately from the German verb backen.

peasant · A member of the lowly social class that toils on the land,…pebble · A small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water.peck · To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird).

Peck · A surname.

peculiar · Out of the ordinary; odd; strange; unusual.pedal · A lever operated by one's foot that is used to control or…pedestal · The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.

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