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PEACH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A shade of pink tinged with yellow
Synonyms:
apricot; peach; salmon pink; yellowish pink
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("peach" is a kind of...):
pink (a light shade of red)
Derivation:
peachy (of something resembling a peach in color)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("peach" is a kind of...):
edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)
drupe; stone fruit (fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube)
Holonyms ("peach" is a part of...):
peach; peach tree; Prunus persica (cultivated in temperate regions)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A very attractive or seductive looking woman
Synonyms:
beauty; dish; knockout; looker; lulu; mantrap; peach; ravisher; smasher; stunner; sweetheart
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("peach" is a kind of...):
adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))
Sense 4
Meaning:
Cultivated in temperate regions
Synonyms:
peach; peach tree; Prunus persica
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("peach" is a kind of...):
fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)
Meronyms (parts of "peach"):
peach (downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh)
Holonyms ("peach" is a member of...):
genus Prunus; Prunus (a genus of shrubs and trees of the family Rosaceae that is widely distributed in temperate regions)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Divulge confidential information or secrets
Example:
Be careful--his secretary talks
Synonyms:
babble; babble out; blab; blab out; let the cat out of the bag; peach; sing; spill the beans; talk; tattle
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "peach" is one way to...):
break; bring out; disclose; discover; divulge; expose; give away; let on; let out; reveal; uncover; unwrap (make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret)
Verb group:
spill; talk (reveal information)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Context examples:
The solar eclipse last month on December 25 was a peach, and that sweet new moon starting the ball rolling.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
“Quite tempting! I'm very fond of peaches. Happy to make your acquaintance, Mr. Copperfield, I'm sure.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"She's my lady friend," Jim explained, "and she's a peach. I'd introduce you to her, only you'd win her. I don't see what the girls see in you, honest I don't; but the way you win them away from the fellers is sickenin'."
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I love this eclipse—this will be a rare, peach of a new moon, and should bring only good news.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
“Face like a peach!” standing on tiptoe to pinch my cheek as I sat.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
This eclipse is such a peach that you are likely to love the news that comes up.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The schoolroom was a pretty large hall, on the quietest side of the house, confronted by the stately stare of some half-dozen of the great urns, and commanding a peep of an old secluded garden belonging to the Doctor, where the peaches were ripening on the sunny south wall.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
This full moon will be a peach and a delight in every way.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
It’s a peach of a full moon, so use it if you have things you want to change about your living quarters.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The people you are talking to want to know your compensation requirements, and those talks will soon reach a settlement, beginning in earnest on the peach of a new moon of February 23.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
