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Noun
S:
(n)
batch
,
deal
,
flock
,
good deal
,
great deal
,
hatful
,
heap
,
lot
,
mass
,
mess
,
mickle
,
mint
,
mountain
,
muckle
,
passel
,
peck
,
pile
,
plenty
,
pot
,
quite a little
,
raft
,
sight
,
slew
,
spate
,
stack
,
tidy sum
,
wad
((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"
S:
(n)
peck
(a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons)
S:
(n)
peck
(a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches)
Verb
S:
(v)
peck
,
pick
,
beak
(hit lightly with a picking motion)
S:
(v)
peck
,
pick up
(eat by pecking at, like a bird)
S:
(v)
smack
,
peck
(kiss lightly)
S:
(v)
pick at
,
peck at
,
peck
(eat like a bird)
"The anorexic girl just picks at her food"
S:
(v)
nag
,
peck
,
hen-peck
(bother persistently with trivial complaints)
"She nags her husband all day long"