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