DICTOMETER

BESITO (Spanish for "peck")

(peck, nuss, suss)

1. Synonyms:
   • Batch
   • Deal
   • Flock
   • Good deal
   • Great deal
   • Hatful
   • Heap
   • Lot
   • Mass
   • Mess
   • Mickle
   • Mint
   • Mountain
   • Muckle
   • Passel
   • Peck
   • Pile
   • Plenty
   • Pot
   • Quite a little
   • Raft
   • Sight
   • Slew
   • Spate
   • Stack
   • Tidy sum
   • Wad
   Definitions:
   • (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
   Examples:
   • A batch of letters
   • A deal of trouble
   • A lot of money
   • He made a mint on the stock market
   • See the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
   • It must have cost plenty
   • A slew of journalists
   • A wad of money
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Peck
   Definitions:
   • a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Peck
   Definitions:
   • a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Peck
   • Pick
   • Beak
   Definitions:
   • hit lightly with a picking motion
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Peck
   • Pick up
   Definitions:
   • eat by pecking at, like a bird
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Smack
   • Peck
   Definitions:
   • kiss lightly
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Pick at
   • Peck at
   • Peck
   Definitions:
   • eat like a bird
   Examples:
   • The anorexic girl just picks at her food
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Nag
   • Peck
   • Hen-peck
   Definitions:
   • bother persistently with trivial complaints
   Examples:
   • She nags her husband all day long