Peach
Pronunciation
- enPR: pÄ“ch, IPA: /piËt͡ʃ/
- Rhymes: -iËtʃ
Origin 1
From Middle English peche, from Old French pesche (French: pêche) from Medieval Latin pesca, from Vulgar Latin pessica from Classical Latin persica, from malum persicum ("Persian apple"), from Ancient Greek μῆλον πεÏσικόν ("Persian apple"). See Perse.
Noun
peach
(plural peaches)- A tree (), native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
- (fruit) The 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.
- 1915?, T S Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockShall I part my hair behind? Do I dare eat a peach?
- A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color.
- (informal) A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
- 2012, September 15, Amy Lawrence, Arsenal's Gervinho enjoys the joy of six against lowly Southampton, 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.
- The large, edible berry of the , a rubiaceous climbing shrub of west tropical Africa.
Full definition of peach
Adjective
peach
- (colour) Of the color peach.
- Particularly pleasing or agreeable.
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Origin 2
From Middle English pechen, from apechen ("to accuse") and empechen ("to accuse"), possibly from Anglo-Norman anpecher, from Late Latin impedicÅ ("entangle"). See impeach.
Verb
- (intransitive, obsolete) To inform on someone; turn informer.
- ShakespeareIf I be ta'en, I'll peach for this.
- 1916, James Joyce, ''Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, 21)And his father had told him if he ever wanted anything to write home to him and, whatever he did, never to peach on a fellow.
- 1913, Rex Stout, Her Forbidden Knight, 1997 Carroll & Graf edition, ISBN 0786704446, page 123:"Do you think we want to peach? No, thank you. We may be none too good, but we won't hang a guy up, no matter who he is...."
- (transitive, obsolete) To inform against.
Antonyms
- hide
- keep secret