Peck : v. tr. (word coming from bec).
Peck: eat. What are we eating tonight?
We also write becter, bécqueter or bèqueteter; to peck.
Picking your nose: arguing, arguing bitterly.
What are we bugging today?
To have someone peck their pumps: to submit them entirely to their demands.
Give little kisses, smoochs.
Peck at the backing table: not to be hungry.
Two quotes from the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Destouches dit Céline (1894-1961)
- "Man is about as human as the hen flies." When it takes a hard hit in the pot, when a car makes it waltz, it comes off well up to the roof, but it transplanted immediately into the mud, eating the dung. It is its nature, its ambition. " in Mea Culpa.
- "It had been a little more than twenty-four hours, that we had nothing screwed us-others" in Death on credit.