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

He got near enough to his sisters to say: "Keep up your pecker, Pansy, for there won't be any Aberdeen about it."

From Crusoes of the Frozen North by Gordon Stables

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 Talbot Baines Reed

Our people met with other small birds there, but in no great variety and abundance; such as the wood pecker, the bullfinch, the yellow finch, and a small bird called a tit-mouse.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Robert Kerr

"Them strangers an' grandpap an' Uncle Arch—an' another rock- pecker."

From The Heart of the Hills by John Fox

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

It wasn't your fault, only your instinct, so I quite forgive you; but no wonder the peckers wear better than the pecked.

From Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu