peck at

English

Verb

peck at (third-person singular simple present pecks at, present participle pecking at, simple past and past participle pecked at)

  1. (transitive) To attack with repeatedly soft blows (physically or otherwise)
  2. (transitive) To unenthusiastically and in small bites.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “peck at”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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