Peach
WordNet
noun
(1) A shade of pink tinged with yellow
(2) Downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh
(3) A very attractive or seductive looking woman
(4) Cultivated in temperate regions
verb
(5) Divulge confidential information or secrets; "Be careful--his secretary talks"
WiktionaryText
Etymology 1
peche < pesche (French: pêche) < pesca < pessica < Classical Latin persica < malum Persicum (Persian apple), from Greek μῆλον Περσικόν (Persian apple). See Perse.
Noun
- A small Chinese tree (Prunus persica), widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
- The soft juicy fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed.
- (colour) A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color.
- A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
- The large, edible berry of the Sarcocephalus esculentus, a rubiaceous climbing shrub of west tropical Africa.
Etymology 2
From , from and , possibly from Anglo-Norman anpecher, from . See impeach.
Verb
- To inform on someone; turn informer.
- 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.
- 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, 21)
- To inform against.