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's half a wife, yon pecker bill; A book and likewise preacher.

From Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith

The natural home of Taxus—the Exchequer— Harbours a creature that keeps up its pecker.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 14, 1891 by Various

“Keep your pecker up, and if you’ll take the advice of an old sailor, I’d recommend you to write to your friends and go home.”

From On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story by William Heysham Overend

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

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 and porridge, yol get better forridge,    Wen the railway gets fairly agait.

From Random Rhymes and Rambles by William Aldis Wright