peach
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (p-a-r-s /⁠pārsa⁠/)bor.
Ancient Greek Πέρσης (Pérsēs)bor.
Late Latin Persa
Late Latin persicus
Late Latin persicum
Late Latin persica
Vulgar Latin *pessica
Old French peschebor.
Middle English peche
English peach
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.
Inflected forms:
form: peaches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more peach
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most peach
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: I think it the best way to plant the fifteen sorts, and the hard Peaches I have mentioned, in the same order as they stand in the list.
Several attempts have been made to class the varieties of Peaches and Nectarines by the leaf and flower, as well as the fruit.
Scattered plantings of peaches are maintained on the light-textured deep alluvial soils of the Foster, Cajon, Hanford, Hesperia, and Greenfield series west of Porterville, near Woodville, Poplar, Sausalito School, and farther south along the Kern County boundary line north of Delano.
State universities and U.S. Department of Agriculture facilities have largely replaced the private state and national pomological and horticultural organizations as the primary researchers for peach cultivation.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [A]nd that the English should eat peaches in May, and green pease in October, sounds to Italian ears as a miracle; they comfort themselves, however, by saying that they must be very insipid, while we know that fruits forced by strong fire are at least many of them higher in flavour than those produced by sun […]
When dissolved, stir it up well, and put in the peaches, without crowding them, and boil them slowly about twenty minutes.
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare eat a peach? / I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
Boiling water or steam loosens the peel of very ripe peaches, especially freestone or melting-flesh types, in 10–30 sec.
gloss: A light yellow-red colour.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: To dye one chip bonnet peach colour, put four ounces of cudbear in one gallon of water, make it boil, and put one ounce of soda in the liquor.
If the dye is for a light color such as peach, more dry dye could be used.
Circle Quilt throw in peach and green
gloss: A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
examples: How did the common expressions "She's a peach!" and "He has a peach of a job!" arise if not because the peach of all fruits is a symbol of perfection?
Walking on the beaches / looking at the peaches
Except for the loss of Uncle Jack's income, his mother's growing disenchantment with her domestic arrangements, and the deepening Depression, it was a peach of a time for Berryman.
Arsenal's dominance was reflected in a flurry of goals before half-time – three in six minutes: first, Podolski turned the screw with a peach of a free-kick; then Gervinho accelerated on to Mikel Arteta's beautifully crafted pass and beat Davis at his near post with conviction; and finally Southampton's defence unspooled completely when Gervinho broke to release Gibbs, whose return ball cannoned off Nathaniel Clyne for Southampton's second own goal of a sobering afternoon.
gloss: Buttock or bottom.
pos: noun
tags: countable
often
plural
uncountable
examples: Down on the beaches, just look at all the peaches
Gia danced around a little, shaking her peaches for show. She shook it hard. Too hard. In the middle of a shimmy, her stomach cramped. A fart slipped out. A loud one. And stinky.
gloss: Of or pertaining to the color peach.
pos: adj
examples: Looking around her very large and very peach open kitchen and family room, I couldn't believe my eyes, but I knew the color must be there for a reason.
The dining compartment was very peach.
Perhaps this is best illustrated in the particularly bizarre Kinkade painting entitled The Good Shepherd's Cottage, where an openarmed (and very peach) Jesus welcomes a herd of sheep—literal sheep—to the threshold of a glowing cottage.
gloss: Particularly pleasing or agreeable.
pos: adj
examples: 'That'll be just peach with me.'
If I explain that I won't help them maintain systems running proprietary software (I'll make an exception for firmware, sometimes.) they usually shrug their shoulders and ask someone else -- which is just peach with me.
Her words were peach with sincerity, and I could tell she really believed it was a good idea.
I am sure I was just peach to deal with.
Related words: 🍑
laetrile
nectarine
Derived words: African peach
Anderson's peachbrush
belly-up peach
bloom is off the peach
blush is off the peach
Chinese peach
cling peach
clingstone peach
custard peach
desert peach
donut peach
doughnut peach
flat peach
freestone peach
freeze peach
fuzzless peach
green peach aphid
Guinea peach
hat peach
Indian peach
Jupiter peach
lesser peach tree borer
little peach
longevity peach
pan tao peach
paraguayo peach
peacharita
peach bark beetle
peach blossom
peachblow
peach borer
peachbush
Peach County
peachen
peacherine
peacherino
peachery
peaches and cream
peach-fronted parakeet
peach-fronted conure
peach fruit borer
peach fruit moth
peachfuzz
peach fuzz
peaching
peachish
peachleaf
peachleaf bellflower
peach leaf curl
peach-leaf willow
peachleaf willow
peachless
peachlet
peachlike
peach melba
peach oak
peach of immortality
peach palm
peach phony disease
peach pit
peach-pit
peach-potato aphid
peachskin snailfish
peach snailfish
Peach Springs
peach thorn
peachtini
peachtree
peach tree
peach twig borer
peach water
peachwood
peachy
peachy keen
phony peach disease
pickle peach
pita peach
plum peach
press peach
Saturn peach
saucer peach
sea peach
Sierra Leone peach
smallflower peachbrush
sweetcap peach
Texas peachbrush
UFO peach
wolf's peach
Translations:
lang: Abkhaz
word: атама
roman: atʼama
lang: Afrikaans
word: perske
lang: Alabama
word: takkola
lang: Albanian
word: pjeshkë
lang: Amharic
word: ኮክ
roman: kok
lang: Arabic
word: خَوْخ
roman: ḵawḵ
lang: Arabic
word: خَوْخَة
roman: ḵawḵa
lang: Arabic
word: دُرَّاق
roman: durrāq
lang: Arabic
word: فِرْسِك
roman: firsik
lang: Arabic
word: خوخ
roman: ḵōḵ
lang: Arabic
word: خوحة
roman: ḵōḵa
lang: Arabic
word: خوخ
roman: ḵōḵ
lang: Arabic
word: خوخ
roman: ḵūḵ
lang: Arabic
word: دراق
roman: dirrāʕ
lang: Aragonese
word: malacatón
lang: Aragonese
word: presiego
lang: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
word: ܚܵܘܚܵܐ
roman: ḳawḳa
lang: Mandaic
word: ࡊࡀࡅࡊࡀ
roman: ḵawḵā
lang: Armenian
word: դեղձ
roman: deġj
lang: Aromanian
word: chearsicã
lang: Aromanian
word: hearhicã
lang: Asturian
word: piescu
lang: Azerbaijani
word: şaftalı
lang: Azerbaijani
word: hulu
lang: Basque
word: mertxika
lang: Belarusian
word: пе́рсік
roman: pjérsik
lang: Bengali
word: পীচ
roman: pic
lang: Breton
word: pechez collective noun pechezenn
lang: Bulgarian
word: пра́скова
roman: práskova
lang: Burmese
word: မက်မွန်
roman: makmwan
lang: Carpathian Rusyn
word: броскы́ня
roman: broskŷ́nja
lang: Catalan
word: préssec
lang: Catalan
word: melicotó
lang: Cherokee
word: ᏆᏅ
roman: quanv
lang: Chickasaw
word: takolo
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 桃
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 桃子
roman: tou⁴ zi²
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 蜜桃
roman: mat⁶ tou⁴
lang: Eastern Min Chinese
word: 桃
roman: to
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 桃
roman: táo
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 桃子
roman: táozi
lang: Choctaw
word: takkon
lang: Cornish
word: aval gwlanek
lang: Czech
word: broskev
lang: Danish
word: fersken
lang: Dutch
word: perzik
lang: Egyptian
word: d:p-H-M1-n-p:r-s-N25
roman: dpḥ n prs
lang: Esperanto
word: persiko
lang: Estonian
word: virsik
lang: Faroese
word: ferska
lang: Finnish
word: persikka
lang: French
word: pêche
lang: North Frisian
word: Fersk
lang: West-Frisian
word: perzik
lang: Friulian
word: piersul
lang: Galician
word: pexego
lang: Galician
word: pavía
lang: Ge'ez
word: ኮክ
roman: kok
lang: Georgian
word: ატამი
roman: aṭami
lang: German
word: Pfirsich
lang: German
word: Fërsich
lang: Greek
word: ροδάκινο
roman: rodákino
lang: Ancient Greek
word: περσικόν
roman: persikón
lang: Ancient Greek
word: δωράκιον
roman: dōrákion
lang: Pontic Greek
word: ροδάκινον
roman: rodákinon
lang: Greenlandic
word: ferskeni
lang: Haitian Creole
word: pèch
lang: Hawaiian
word: koukī
lang: Hebrew
word: אֲפַרְסֵק
roman: afarsék
lang: Hindi
word: आड़ू
roman: āṛū
lang: Hindi
word: शफतालु
roman: śaphtālu
lang: Hindi
word: शफ़तालु
roman: śaftālu
lang: Hungarian
word: őszibarack
lang: Hungarian
word: barack
lang: Hunsrik
word: Persch
lang: Hunsrik
word: fërsich
lang: Hunsrik
word: phërx
lang: Icelandic
word: ferskja
lang: Indonesian
word: persik
lang: Indonesian
word: kesemek
lang: Irish
word: péitseog
lang: Italian
word: pesca
lang: Japanese
word: 桃
roman: momo
lang: Kabyle
word: taxuxet
lang: Kabyle
word: lxux
lang: Kaitag
word: кьвя́рче
roman: q̇və́rče
lang: Kashmiri
word: ژٕنُن
roman: ċụnun
lang: Kazakh
word: шабдалы
roman: şabdaly
lang: Korean
word: 복숭아
roman: boksung'a
lang: Kumyk
word: шаптал
roman: şaptal
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: xox
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: şeftalî
lang: Kyrgyz
word: шабдалы
roman: şabdalı
lang: Ladino
word: shefteli
lang: Ladino
word: brisko
lang: Lao
word: ໝາກພິດຄ
roman: māk phit kha
lang: Latin
word: persicum
lang: Latin
word: duracinum
lang: Latvian
word: persiks
lang: Latvian
word: firziķis
lang: Laz
word: ანტამა
roman: anťama
lang: Ligurian
word: pèrsego
lang: Lithuanian
word: persikas
lang: Lombard
word: persich
lang: Lombard
word: persegh
lang: Lombard
word: pérsigh
lang: Low German
word: Peersch
lang: Lü
word: ᦖᦱᧅᦃᦸᧂᧈ
roman: ṁaakẋoang¹
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Piisch
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Pijen
lang: Macanese
word: péscu
lang: Macedonian
word: пра́ска
roman: práska
lang: Malagasy
word: paiso
lang: Malay
word: pic
lang: Malay
word: persik
lang: Maltese
word: ħawħ
lang: Maltese
word: ħawħa
lang: Manchu
word: ᡨᠣᡵᠣ
roman: toro
lang: Manx
word: peitshag
lang: Manx
word: pershagh
lang: Māori
word: pītiti
lang: Mirandese
word: pierxigo
lang: Mirandese
word: piérxigo
lang: Mongolian
word: тоор
roman: toor
lang: Mongolian
word: тоор жимс
roman: toor žims
lang: Mongolian
word: персик
roman: persik
lang: Navajo
word: didzétsoh
lang: Navajo
word: bitseeʼ hólóní
lang: Neapolitan
word: pèrzeca
lang: Neapolitan
word: percòca
lang: Neapolitan
word: piérzeco
lang: Nogai
word: шабдал
roman: şabdal
lang: Norman
word: pêche
lang: Norwegian
word: fersken
lang: Occitan
word: persèga
lang: Occitan
word: persec
lang: Ojibwe
word: miishijiimin
lang: Okinawan
word: 桃
roman: mumu
lang: Old English
word: persoc
lang: Oromo
word: kookii
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: брескиня
roman: breskinja
lang: Pashto
word: شلتالو
roman: shaltâlu
lang: Pashto
word: شوتالو
roman: šawtâlu
lang: Persian
word: هلو
roman: holu
lang: Persian
word: شفتالو
roman: šaftâlu
lang: Polish
word: brzoskwinia
lang: Portuguese
word: pêssego
lang: Quechua
word: turasnu
lang: Romanian
word: piersică
lang: Romansh
word: persic
lang: Russian
word: пе́рсик
roman: pérsik
lang: Saaroa
word: mimiliki’ukuhlucu
lang: Northern Sami
word: persihkka
lang: Campidanese Sardinian
word: prèssiu
lang: Sardinian
word: pèssighe
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: peitseag
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: бре̏сква
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: brȅskva
lang: Sicilian
word: pèrsicu
lang: Sindhi
word: آڙو
roman: āṛo
lang: Slovak
word: broskyňa
lang: Slovene
word: breskev
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: rjaschen
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: brěšk
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: brěška
lang: Spanish
word: durazno
lang: Spanish
word: melocotón
lang: Swahili
word: pichi
lang: Swedish
word: persika
lang: Tagalog
word: melokoton
lang: Tajik
word: шафтолу
roman: šaftolu
lang: Taos
word: phòʼína
lang: Thai
word: ท้อ
roman: tɔ́ɔ
lang: Thai
word: พีช
roman: píit
lang: Tigrinya
word: ኩኽ
roman: kux
lang: Turkish
word: şeftali
lang: Turkish
word: alıç
lang: Turkmen
word: şetdaly
lang: Ubykh
word: тым'а
roman: tʼəṃa
lang: Ukrainian
word: пе́рсик
roman: pérsyk
lang: Unami
word: pilkësh
lang: Urdu
word: آڑو
roman: āṛū
lang: Uyghur
word: شاپتۇل
roman: shaptul
lang: Uzbek
word: shaftoli
lang: Venetan
word: pèrsego
lang: Vietnamese
word: đào
lang: Volapük
word: pärsig
lang: Welsh
word: eirinen wlanog
lang: Winnebago
word: kšeehįšek
lang: Winnebago
word: kąąc hįšek
lang: Yiddish
word: פֿערשקע
roman: fershke
lang: Zazaki
word: xewx
lang: Zulu
word: ipentshisi
lang: Afrikaans
word: perskekleurig
lang: Indonesian
word: krem
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: peitseagach
lang: Ukrainian
word: пе́рсиковий
roman: pérsykovyj