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
The young ’un, despite this friendly advice, felt very far from keeping up his pecker.
From The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story by Reed, Talbot Baines
I think we shall run in the kidnappers; keep your pecker up.
From The Disentanglers by Lang, Andrew
He's half a wife, yon pecker bill; A book and likewise preacher.
From Poems — Volume 3 by Meredith, George
“We’re just off Beachy Head, and you must lie where you are till mornin’; but, as you must be famished by now, I’ve brought you a bit of grub to keep your pecker up.
From On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story by Overend, William Heysham
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
She lingered uncertainly among complacent wood peckers from the north.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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
Later they are among the most inveterate robbers of cherry orchards and peckers of figs, which they always attack on the ripest side.
From The Naturalist on the Thames by Cornish, C. J. (Charles John)
