transcription, транскрипция: [ pek ]
( pecks, pecking, pecked)
1.
If a bird pecks at something or pecks something, it moves its beak forward quickly and bites at it.
It was winter and the sparrows were pecking at whatever they could find...
Chickens pecked in the dust...
It pecked his leg...
They turn on their own kind and peck each other to death...
These birds peck off all the red flowers.
VERB : V at n , V prep / adv , V n , V n prep , V n with adv
2.
If you peck someone on the cheek, you give them a quick, light kiss.
Elizabeth walked up to him and pecked him on the cheek...
She pecked his cheek.
VERB : V n on n , V n
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Peck is also a noun.
He gave me a little peck on the cheek.
N-COUNT : usu a N