# pecker

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈpɛkə(ɹ)/ · frequency rank #51,908

## Definitions
1. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly
2. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
3. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
4. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
5. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
6. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
7. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
8. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
9. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
10. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
11. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
12. A nose.
13. Spirits, nerve, courage.
14. Short for peckerwood ("whitey; white trash")
15. Short for peckerhead ("dickhead; an aggressive or objectionable idiot").
16. Clipping of peckerhead (“an electric motor's junction or terminal connection box, where power cords are connected to the winding leads”).

## Etymology
From Middle English pekker, equivalent to peck (“to pick at something in the manner of a bird”) + -er (“forming agent nouns”).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/pecker