Peck

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English

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Etymology

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  • As an English surname, variant of Speake with loss of the initial letter.
  • Also as an English (and sometimes Irish) surname, variant of Peak, Petch, Peach.
  • As a south German surname, variant of Beck. Compare Pek, also found in Poland.
  • As a Dutch and north German surname, from pek (pitch, tar, resin).
  • As a Hungarian, Czech, Polish, Serbo-Croatian and Slovene surname, Americanized and Germanized from Pek, Pék meaning "baker," itself ultimately from the German verb backen.

Proper noun

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Peck

  1. A surname.
  2. A place in the United States:
    1. A city in Idaho.
    2. An unincorporated community in Sedgwick County and Sumner County, Kansas.
    3. A village in Michigan.
    4. A town in Wisconsin.

Hunsrik

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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Peck m

  1. plural of Pack