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
Keep your pecker up, old man, Georgie and I are both going to back you up.
From Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton by W. S. (Walter S.) Stacey
Our people met with other small birds there, but in no great variety and abundance; such as the wood pecker, the bullfinch, the yellow finch, and a small bird called a tit-mouse.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Robert Kerr
Yes, he picked a peck of pepper; Pick, pecker, peacock!
From Rhymes Old and New : collected by M.E.S. Wright by M. E. S. Wright
"Keep your pecker up, old feller! and put your trust in old beans," was Mr.Bouncer's reply.
From Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green by Cuthbert Bede
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
It wasn't your fault, only your instinct, so I quite forgive you; but no wonder the peckers wear better than the pecked.
From Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
