unpeckable

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ peckable

Adjective[edit]

unpeckable (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Impossible to peck.
    • 1955, Phyllis Bottome, Not in Our Stars, Faber & Faber, page 103:
      He then became henpecked. Are women unpeckable?
    • 2007 June 26, Natalie Angier, “In Parasite Survival, Ploys to Get Help From a Host”, in New York Times[1]:
      After all, a pill bug normally spends the sunlit hours when diurnal birds are about coiled away like a petite armadillo, often beneath some unpeckable tree stump or stone.