peach
/ˈpiːt͡ʃ/ noun, adjective, verb, proper noun
Forms peaches peaching peached
- noun (countable) Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
- noun (countable, uncountable) Soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed.
- noun (uncountable) A light yellow-red colour.
- noun (countable, informal) A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
- noun (euphemestic, often in plural) Buttock or bottom.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the color peach.
- adjective Particularly pleasing or agreeable.
- verb (intransitive, obsolete) To inform on someone; turn informer.
- verb (transitive, obsolete) To inform against.
- noun (mineralogy, obsolete, Cornwall) A particular rock found in tin mines, sometimes associated with chlorite.
- noun (US, informal) A native or resident of Georgia in the United States.
- proper noun A surname.
- proper noun A female given name.
Synonyms
peach tree agreeable fair orange paragon peachy rosy sing squeal tattle bewray blow the whistle clepe denounce dime dime out dob drop a dime drop a dime on someone finger Prunus persica smasher stunner knockout beauty ravisher sweetheart lulu looker mantrap
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English peche, borrowed from Old French pesche (French pêche), Vulgar Latin *pessica (cf. Medieval Latin pesca) from Late Latin persica, from Classical Latin mālum persicum, from Ancient Greek μᾶλον περσικόν (mâlon persikón, “Persian apple”). Displaced Middle English persogȝe, from Old English persoc, ultimately from the same Latin root above.
From Middle English pechen, from apechen (“to accuse”) and empechen (“to accuse”), possibly from Anglo-Norman anpecher, from Late Latin impedicō (“entangle”). See impeach.
* As an English surname, from French péché (“sin”). Compare Peachey, Petch.
* As a German surname, Americanized from Pietsch.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To accuse of crime; to inform against. [Obs.] Foxe.
- verb To turn informer; to betray one's accomplice. [Obs. or Colloq.]
- noun A well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone; also, the tree which bears it (Prunus, or Amygdalus Persica). In the wild stock the fruit is hard and inedible. Guinea, or Sierra Leone, peach, the large edible berry of the Sarcocephalus esculentus, a rubiaceous climbing shrub of west tropical Africa.
Etymology [See Appeach, Impeach.]
Etymology [OE. peche, peshe, OF. pesche, F. pêche, fr. LL. persia, L. Persicum (sc. malum) a Persian apple, a peach. Cf. Persian, and Parsee.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “peach”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details