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peck

Nouns

• (n) (often followed by "of") a large number or amount or extent
  • a batch of letters
  • a deal of trouble
  • a lot of money
  • he made a mint on the stock market
  • see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
  • it must have cost plenty
  • a slew of journalists
  • a wad of money
  good deal, great deal, hatful, lot, mickle, mint, muckle, passel, quite a little, slew, spate, tidy sum, batch, heap, mass, mountain, pile, plenty, raft, stack, wad, deal, flock, pot, mess, sight,
• (n) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons
• (n) a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches

Verbs

• (v) hit lightly with a picking motion beak, pick,
• (v) eat by pecking at, like a bird pick up,
• (v) kiss lightly smack,
• (v) eat like a bird
  • The anorexic girl just picks at her food
  peck at, pick at,
• (v) bother persistently with trivial complaints
  • She nags her husband all day long
  hen-peck, nag,

Synonyms

good deal great deal hatful lot mickle mint muckle passel quite a little slew spate tidy sum batch heap mass mountain pile plenty raft stack wad deal flock pot mess sight beak pick pick up smack peck at pick at hen-peck nag

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