peach

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Translations 1.2.2 Adjective 1.2.2.1 Synonyms 1.2.2.2 Antonyms 1.2.2.3 Derived terms 1.2.3 See also 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Verb 1.3.1.1 Synonyms 1.3.1.2 Antonyms

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[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: pēch, IPA: /piːʧ/, SAMPA: /pi:tS/
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• Rhymes: -iːtʃ

[edit] Etymology 1

Middle English peche < Old French pesche (French: pêche) < Mediaeval Latin pesca < Vulgar Latin pessica < Classical Latin persica < malum Persicum (Persian apple), from Greek μῆλον Περσικόν (Persian apple). See Perse.

[edit] Noun

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peach (plural peaches)

1. A small Chinese tree (Prunus persica), widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
2. The soft juicy fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed.
3. (colour) A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color.

   peach colour:

4. (informal) A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
5. The large, edible berry of the Sarcocephalus esculentus, a rubiaceous climbing shrub of west tropical Africa.

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[edit] Adjective

peach

1. (colour) Of the color peach.
2. Particularly pleasing or agreeable.

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• agreeable, fair, orange, paragon, rosy

[edit] Antonyms

• disagreeable, foul, ugly, unpleasant

[edit] Derived terms

Indian peach lesser peach tree borer open peach peaches and cream

Peach Melba peach palm peachy

pickle peach plum peach press peach

[edit] See also

• laetrile
• nectarine
• Appendix:Colours

[edit] Etymology 2

From Middle English pechen, from apechen (“‘to accuse’”) and empechen (“‘to accuse’”), possibly from Anglo-Norman anpecher, from Late Latin impedicō (“‘entangle’”). See impeach.

[edit] Verb

to peach (third-person singular simple present peaches, present participle peaching, simple past and past participle peached)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To inform on someone; turn informer.
   • 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, 21)

     And his father had told him if he ever wanted anything to write home to him and, whatever he did, never to peach on a fellow.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To inform against.

[edit] Synonyms

Sing, squeal, tattle.

[edit] Antonyms

• hide
• keep secret