Difference between Nag and Peck

What is the difference between Nag and Peck?

Nag as a noun is a small horse; a pony. while Peck as a noun is one quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts.

Nag

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A small horse; a pony. An old useless horse. One who nags.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To bother with persistent memories. To repeatedly complain about often insignificant matters. To act inappropriately in the eyes of peers, to backstab, to verbally abuse.

Example sentence: I write to relieve an intellectual itch. I stumble across a hitherto neglected set of events, transformations, characters, or source materials from the past, and they nag at me until I make sense of them in words. But I also write to seduce and to make my readers think.

Peck

Part of speech: noun

Definition: One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts.A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.A short kiss.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird) or similar instrument.To do something in small, intermittent pieces.To type by searching for each key individually.To type in general.

We hope you now know whether to use Nag or Peck in your sentence.

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