pecken

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German

Pronunciation

Verb

pecken (weak, third-person singular present peckt, past tense peckte, past participle gepeckt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (Austria, Bavaria) Alternative form of picken (to peck, to pick, to transmit through a cusp)
    • 2016 January 26, “Tauben würden Wünschelruten kaufen”, in Futurezone:
      Die Tauben von Burrhus Frederic Skinner benahmen sich völlig verrückt. Die eine wippte mit dem Kopf, als würde sie einen unsichtbaren Luftballon nach oben stoßen, die andere wackelte mit den Flügeln, die dritte peckte mit ihrem Schnabel sinnlos auf dem Boden herum.
      The doves of Burrhus Frederic Skinner were behaving like bare mad. One was teetering with the head as though it were pushing an invisible air-balloon above its head, the other was waggling its wings, the third was senselessly pecking with its beak on the ground.
  2. (now Lippe) Alternative form of picken (to adhere, to stick)
    • 2017 December 29, Andrea Berning, “Bei ihr gibt es das »Pickert-Diplom«”, in Westfalen-Blatt:
      In der Regel wurde der Pickert auf der heißen Herdplatte gebacken, und wenn die Platte nicht heiß genug war, »peckte« er eben an.
      Pickert was, as a rule, baken on the hot plate, and if it was not hot enough then it was sticking.
  3. (Austria, informal) to cough up, to fork out, to shell out (to pay money (reluctantly))
    Synonyms: bezahlen, berappen, blechen, brennen, löhnen, zahlen
  4. (Austria, informal) to tattoo
    Synonym: tätowieren

Conjugation

Middle English

Verb

pecken

  1. Alternative form of piken