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PECKER
Definition of PECKER
noun
Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly: Any tool used in a pecking fashion, particularly kinds of hoes or pickaxes. Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion, particularly: A picker, a shuttle-driver: the device which moves backwards and forwards in the shuttle-box to drive the shuttle through the warp. A kind of V-shaped telegraphic relay. Clipping of pecker mill, a rice mill. A bird, particularly a member of the group including the woodpeckers, flowerpeckers, oxpeckers, and berrypeckers. Clipping of woodpecker (Picidae). An eater, a diner. A bird's beak.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English pekker, equivalent to peck (“to pick at something in the manner of a bird”) + -er (“forming agent nouns”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PECKER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 36, 25 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PECKER starts with P and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read CEEKPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start PECKER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 36
Could you have found PECKER?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 36 - and most players walked straight past it.
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