pecker
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"Thank you so much to everyone that has bought it - I hope you're having as much fun listening to it as I had making it. Keep your pecker up and all the very best."
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2014
Well, keep up yer pecker, my pippin, and keep down yer natural rage.
From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 by Harry Furniss
Keep your pecker up, James,' he added, in a tone which the patron and the bully spoke at once.
From VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea by David Christie Murray
Keep up your pecker, sir; never say die; and don’t you think about it.
From Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Gordon Stables
He's half a wife, yon pecker bill; A book and likewise preacher.
From Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith
Concrete peckers will be used to take the old bridge away before the debris is removed and the new bridge will be wheeled down the motorway and fitted into place.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2024
A perennial headache is the exotic structures' attraction for curiosity seekers and peckers.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were blue jays, which are very quarrelsome birds, and black-and- white peckers that pecked holes in the yucca stalks and the poles of my roof, even in the whale bones of the fence.
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
She lingered uncertainly among complacent wood peckers from the north.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Sez Dick o’ Grate Beckers, just keep up yor peckers, Yo hevn’t much longer to wait For blue milk and porridge, yol get better forridge, Wen the railway gets fairly agait.
From Random Rhymes and Rambles by William Aldis Wright
