Pianissimo

Definition

peck /pek/ v ၁။ ~ (at sth) (က) (ၾကက္၊ ငွက္) ဆိတ္သည္၊ ေပါက္ သည္၊ ေတာက္သည္။ hens pecking in the yard ❍ birds pecking at the berries ❍ The lamb had been pecked by crows. (ခ) ဆိတ္၍ ဖဲ့သည္၊ ေဖာက္သည္၊ ထိုးသည္။ The birds had pecked a hole in the sack. ၂။ ~ sb (on sth) ( infml ) တို႔ကနန္းဆိတ္ကနန္း ဖြဖြနမ္းသည္။ peck sb on the cheek. n (usu sing ) ၁။ (ႏႈတ္သီးျဖင့္) ေပါက္ျခင္း၊ ဆိတ္ျခင္း။ The parrot gave me a sharp peck on the finger. ၂။ ( infml ) ခပ္ဖြဖြအနမ္း။ She gave her aunt a peck on the cheek. ❏ peck at sth [ PHRV ] (လူ) တို႔ကနန္းဆိတ္ကနန္း စားသည္။ တို႔ကာပင့္ကာစားသည္။ She sat nervously pecking at her meal. ❏ a/the pecking order [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဝါစဥ္။ Newcomers have to accept their position at the bottom of the pecking order. ❏ peck sth out [ PHRV ] ႏႈတ္သီးျဖင့္ေပါက္ထုတ္သည္။ Vultures had pecked out the dead goat's eyes.

Examples

1. peck /pek/ v ၁။ ~ (at sth) (က) (ၾကက္၊ ငွက္) ဆိတ္သည္၊ ေပါက္ သည္၊ ေတာက္သည္။ hens pecking in the yard
2. birds pecking at the berries