pecker

"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

Now were G-SCH-N seen collecting cash for his dry Exchequer With pole and net, it were nicer, you bet, than keeping up his financial pecker With Spirit Duties!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 23, 1891 by Various

Keep up your pecker, sir; never say die; and don’t you think about it.

From Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Gordon Stables

The bark of the squirrel, the cooing of mated doves, the “rat-ta-ta” of the pecker, and the constant and measured chirrup of the cicada, are all ringing together.

From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart

“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 William Heysham Overend

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

Sez Dick o’ Grate Beckers, just keep up yor peckers,    Yo’ hevn’t much longer to wait, For blue milk an’ porridge, yo’ll get better forridge,    Wen th’ railway gets fairly agait.

From Th' History o' Haworth Railway fra' th' beginnin' to th' end, wi' an ackaant o' th' oppnin' serrimony by Bill o'th' Hoylus End