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⚠️ An offensive term 🐦 A woodpecker
peckerwood

peckerwood

1 9.9
A bird with a strong beak that pecks wood to find insects
  • noun
  • /ˈpɛkərˌwʊd/
  • US
translation icon : pájaro carpintero

Examples

  • Now who in the world does this little peckerwood belong to?

    Honkytonk Man (1982)

  • And that peckerwood is called a... pilot.

    The Right Stuff (1983)

  • And some peckerwood's got to land it.

    The Right Stuff (1983)

  • He's a world champion peckerwood.

    A River Runs Through It (1992)

  • Peckerwoods are such funny creatures.

    Blog text (2)

  • Darryl, where'd you find these peckerwoods anyway?

    The Wrath of Becky (2023)

  • The peckerwood climbed up the tree, searching for bugs hidden in the bark.

  • I watched as the bright-colored peckerwood hammered away at the wood to find food.

  • In the forest, a peckerwood skillfully dug into the trunk to extract its meal.

Synonyms

woodpecker
vspeckerwood
21 1.4

A bird with a strong beak that makes holes in trees to find insects

is the alternative name for the same bird with identical features

Surface Forms

peckerwood singular
peckerwoods plural

Morphology

peckerwood = pecker + wood (transparent) = pecker + wood

The compound directly names a bird associated with pecking wood; components clearly indicate a bird that pecks wood.

Etymology

Peckerwood comes from pecker ('one who pecks') and wood ('trees') and is another name for a woodpecker, so imagine a bird that 'pecks' at tree trunks to find insects.