pecker vs pluck

pecker

noun
  • Spirits, nerve, courage. 

  • Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill 

  • Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion 

  • A kind of V-shaped telegraphic relay. 

  • A bird, particularly a member of the group including the woodpeckers, flowerpeckers, oxpeckers, and berrypeckers. 

  • Any tool used in a pecking fashion, particularly kinds of hoes or pickaxes. 

  • A penis; cock, dick. 

  • A nose. 

  • A bird's beak or bill. 

pluck

noun
  • Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence. 

  • The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals. 

  • An instance of plucking or pulling sharply. 

  • Cheap wine. 

verb
  • To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation. 

  • To pull something sharply; to pull something out 

  • To pull or twitch sharply. 

  • To remove feathers from a bird. 

  • To play a string instrument pizzicato. 

  • To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc. 

  • Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing. 

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