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Is pecker a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word pecker is a Scrabble US word. The word pecker is worth 14 points in Scrabble:

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Is pecker a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word pecker is a Scrabble UK word and has 14 points:

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Is pecker a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word pecker is a Words With Friends word. The word pecker is worth 16 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

PECKER,

5-letter words (6 found)

CREEK,CREEP,CREPE,KREEP,PECKE,PERCE,

4-letter words (15 found)

CEPE,CERE,CREE,KEEP,PECK,PEEK,PEER,PEKE,PERC,PERE,PERK,PREE,RECK,REEK,REKE,

3-letter words (14 found)

CEE,CEP,EEK,EKE,ERE,ERK,KEP,PEC,PEE,PER,PRE,REC,REE,REP,

2-letter words (4 found)

EE,ER,PE,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 41 words from pecker according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of pecker

pecker

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɛkə(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -ɛkə(ɹ)

Noun

pecker (plural peckers)

  1. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly:
    1. (uncommon or regional) Any tool used in a pecking fashion, particularly kinds of hoes or pickaxes.
    2. (uncommon) Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion, particularly:
      1. (weaving, obsolete) A picker, a shuttle-driver: the device which moves backwards and forwards in the shuttle-box to drive the shuttle through the warp.
      2. (telegraphy, historical) A kind of V-shaped telegraphic relay.
      3. (US regional, historical) Clipping of pecker mill, a rice mill.
    3. (zoology) A bird, particularly a member of the group including the woodpeckers, flowerpeckers, oxpeckers, and berrypeckers.
      1. (zoology, usually colloquial or US regional) Clipping of woodpecker (Picidae).
    4. (UK regional, obsolete) An eater, a diner.
    5. (UK regional) A bird's beak or bill.
    6. (chiefly US, regional, slang) A penis; cock, dick.
  2. (UK colloquial, by extension of the sense ‘beak’) A nose.
  3. (UK colloquial, by extension, from the expression ‘keep one's pecker up’) Spirits, nerve, courage.
  4. (chiefly in the plural, derogatory slang) Short for peckerwood ("whitey; white trash")
  5. (chiefly in the plural, derogatory slang) Short for peckerhead ("dickhead; an aggressive or objectionable idiot").
  6. (US) Clipping of peckerhead ("an electric motor's junction or terminal connection box, where power cords are connected to the winding leads").

Synonyms

  • (nose) See Thesaurus:nose
  • (penis) See Thesaurus:penis
  • (courage) See Thesaurus:courage
  • (connection box) pothead (Canada); T-box, T-block (UK)

Derived terms

Related terms

  • peckish

Translations

References

  • Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed. "pecker, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2005.

Anagrams

  • repeck

Source: wiktionary.org