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▪ I. peach, n.1|piːtʃ|
Forms: 4–6 peche, 5 peshe, pesshe, (peske, peesk), 6 peache, 6– peach.
[ME. a. F. pêche, OF. peche, earlier pesche, in ONF. peske (= Pr. persega, It. persica, pesca):— late L. persica (med.L. in Du Cange), for cl. L. persicum, ellipt. for Persicum mālum lit. Persian apple: so Persica mālus or arbor, peach-tree.
The phonetic development in Romanic was persica, *persca, pesca, peske, pesche, pêche.]
1. a. The fruit of the tree Amygdalus persica (see 2), a large drupe, usually round, of a whitish or yellow colour, flushed with red, with downy skin, highly flavoured sweet pulp, and rough furrowed stone; cultivated in many varieties.
The varieties are classed as clingstone or freestone according as the pulp adheres to or separates from the stone. The nectarine is a variety with smooth skin and different flavour.
a1366Chaucer Rom. Rose 1373 And many hoomly trees ther were, That peches, coynes, and apples bere. c1440Promp. Parv. 395/1 Peske, or peche, frute [v.rr. peesk, peshe], pesca, pomum Percicum. c1483Caxton Dialogues 13/7 Cheryes,..strawberies,..pesshes, medliers. 1542Boorde Dyetary xxi. (1870) 283 Peches doeth mollyfy the bely, and be colde. 1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. iii. 569 The velvet Peach, gilt Orenge, downy Quince. 1620Venner Via Recta vii. 114 Peaches and Aprecocks are of one and the same nature. 1730–46Thomson Autumn 676 The downy peach, the shining plum, The ruddy, fragrant nectarine. 1884M. E. Braddon Ishmael xxxvi, A gray velvet bodice that fitted the plump, supple figure, as the rind fits the peach.
b. slang. Someone or something of exceptional worth or quality; someone or something particularly suitable or desirable, esp. an attractive young woman.
1754E. Turner Let. 16 Aug. in Dickins & Stanton 18th-Cent. Corresp. (1910) 238, I had almost forgot that orange Peach, your Niece. 1863B. Harte in Daily Even. Bull. (San Francisco) 9 Dec. 5/3 Phrases such as camps may teach,..Such as ‘Bully!’ ‘Them's the Peach!’ 1888Puck (U.S.) XXII. 415/2 An' two young darters—one eighteen. A reg'ler peach. 1904W. H. Smith Promoters vii. 134 You're a brick! You're a peach! 1907Punch 2 Jan. 13/2 Prof. Br―ce: H'm! Nice pleasant expression! One who was not a purist in language might almost describe him as a ‘peach’. 1917Wodehouse Man with Two Left Feet 62 Opinions differ about girls. One man's peach..is another man's poison. 1919H. L. Wilson Ma Pettengill iv. 111, I..landed a hard right on the side of his jaw and dropped him just like that. It was one peach I handed him and he slumped down like a sack of mush. 1924‘J. Sutherland’ Circle of Stars xii. 126 It's a peach of a storm, and it's getting worse every moment. 1925F. Scott Fitzgerald Let. June (1964) 484 He's a peach of a fellow and absolutely first-rate. 1930‘R. Crompton’ William—the Bad i. 19 Now would you think that a peach like her would fall for a fat-headed chump like that? 1943E. B. White Let. 1 Jan. (1976) 236 You were a peach to give me such a good present. 1949Sunday World-Herald Mag. (Omaha, Nebraska) 1 May 2/1 The new recipe for making a peach cordial: Buy her a drink. 1974Times 1 Apr. 12/4 She had, of course, a peach of a subject. 1976Derbyshire Times (Peak ed.) 3 Sept. 22/6 (Advt.), 1972 Peugeot 504, white, 34,000, a real peach, {pstlg}1,395. 1976P. Dickinson King & Joker iv. 46 Louise had a history essay, a real peach for which she'd only needed to look up a few dates. 1977D. Francis Risk xiv. 179 Dad's brought the detestable Lida... Actually I would have liked it..if he'd fallen for a peach.
c. peaches and cream: used attrib. and absol. to designate a fair complexion characterized by creamy skin and pink cheeks.
1901Ade Forty Mod. Fables 188 Give me some perfumed Dope that will restore a Peaches and Cream Complexion. 1967‘D. Shannon’ Rain with Violence (1969) i. 10 Carole had very blonde hair..and a peaches-and-cream skin. 1969‘J. Ashford’ Prisoner at Bar vii. 62 She had the perfect peaches-and-cream beauty that was often called classical English. 1975New Yorker 9 June 46/3 She had a real peaches-and-cream complexion and a trim figure. 1978J. Wainwright Jury People lxii. 211 His complexion..was pure ‘peaches and cream’.
2. The tree Amygdalus (Prunus) persica, family Rosaceæ, a native of Asia, introduced in ancient times into Europe; the peach-tree.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 83 (Ashm. MS.) Þe ius of þe leeues of pechis. 1530Palsgr. 252/2 Peache, tree, peschier. 1663Cowley Disc., Garden x, He bids the rustick Plum to rear A noble Trunk, and be a Peach. 1796C. Marshall Garden. xvii. (1813) 284 Peach..succeeds better than the nectarine, as to bearing and ripening. 1898Johnson's Gard. Dict. 722/2 Do not brush off the foliage of peaches in the autumn.
3. Applied to other edible fruits resembling the peach, or to the plants producing them:
a. Sarcocephalus esculentus, a climbing shrub of West Africa (Guinea peach, Negro peach, or Sierra Leone peach), bearing a large juicy berry arising from the fused ovaries of a cluster of flowers;
b. the quandong, Fusanus acuminatus or Santalum acuminatum, of Australia (native peach):
c. Prunus caroliniana, the Carolina cherry-laurel (wild peach), also called wild orange;
†d. wolf's peach, the tomato (Solanum lycopersicum).
1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 322 Peach, Wolf's, Solanum. 1866Treas. Bot. 854 Peach, Guinea,..Native, of Australia,..of Sierra Leone. Ibid. 1020 S[arcocephalus] esculentus has pink flowers and an edible fruit, of the size of a peach, whence it has been called the Sierra Leone Peach.
4. Short for peach-brandy: see 6. (U.S.)
1809M. L. Weems Life Gen. F. Marion viii. 74 Suppose you take a glass of Peach. 1845J. J. Hooper Some Adventures Simon Suggs v. 53 Thar's koniac, and old peach, and rectified. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxiv. (1856) 302 There the air, pure and sharply cold..braces you up like peach and honey in a Virginia fog. 1880Barman's Man. 55 Peach and Honey, one table-spoonful of honey; one wine-glass of peach brandy. Stir with a spoon.
5. = peach-colour: see 6; also attrib. or as adj.
1848Dickens Dombey xxxvii, The diamonds or the peach-velvet bonnet. 1882Garden 16 Sept. 260/1 Blooms of..rosy peach. 1900London Letter 26 Jan. 133/1 Outlined in varying shades of roses from palest peach to deepest puce;..pleatings of white chiffon edged with peach ruches.
6. attrib. and Comb., as peach-bud, peach-down, peach-flavour, peach-flower, peach-graft, peach-kernel, peach-orchard, peach-stone; peach-fed, peach-like adjs.; also with names of colours: designating that shade of the colour which is shown by the peach, as peach-beige, peach-green, peach-pink, peach-red; peach aphid, aphis, one of several aphides infesting peach trees, esp. the peach-potato aphis, Myzus persicae; peach-bells, a name for the peach-leaved bellflower (Campanula persicifolia); peach-black, a black pigment made from calcined peach-stones; peach-blight, peach-blister, diseases of peach-trees, caused by the fungi Monilia fructigena and Taphrina deformans respectively; peach-borer, a name of insects whose larvæ bore through the bark of the peach-tree: spec. a moth, ægeria exitiosa, and a beetle, Dicerca divaricata; peach-brake, a dense thicket of the ‘wild peach’ in Texas (see 3 c); peach-brandy, a spirituous liquor made from the fermented juice of peaches; peach cobbler U.S., a cobbler (sense 4) made with peaches; peach-colour, (a) the colour of a ripe peach, a soft pale red; (b) the colour of peach-blossom, a delicate rose or pink; also attrib. or as adj.; so peach-coloured a.; peach fly = peach aphid; peach-house, a building in which peaches are grown under glass; peach leaf-curl = leaf-curl (b) s.v. leaf n.1 18; peach-leaved a., having leaves like the peach; peach Melba: see Melba; peach myrtle, name for the Australian myrtaceous shrubs of the genus Hypocalymma, with rose-coloured flowers; peach oak, name given to two N. American species of oak, Quercus densiflora (also chestnut oak or tan-bark oak), and Q. phellos (willow oak); peach-palm, a species of palm (Guilielma speciosa) found in tropical south America, bearing a large egg-shaped red-and-orange fruit with firm flesh which becomes mealy and edible when cooked; peach-pip, -pit, a peach-stone; peach-potato aphid, aphis, an aphis, Myzus persicæ, which causes leaf-curl in peach trees and other plants, and also transmits many plant virus diseases; Peach State, a sobriquet of the State of Georgia in the U.S.; peach-water, a flavouring extract obtained from peach-leaves, having a flavour of bitter almonds; peach-wood, a dye-wood (also called Nicaragua wood) resembling brazil-wood, supposed to be that of some species of Cæsalpinia; peach-worm, one of various caterpillars which infest the leaves of peach-trees, chiefly in America; peach yellows, a virus disease affecting cultivated peach-trees, esp. in the United States, in which the leaves become dwarfed, distorted, and yellowish, and the tree dies in a few years.
1909F. V. Theobald Insect & Other Allied Pests 324 *Peach Aphides... At least four species of aphis attack the peach in this country. 1937A. M. Massee Pests of Fruit & Hops vii. 163 The Peach Aphis has been recorded on a very large number of host plants, including fruit trees. 1942Phytopathology XXXII. 93 (title) A virosis-like injury of snapdragons caused by feeding of peach aphid. 1963Jrnl. Insect Physiol. IX. 875 (title) Some amino acid requirements of the green peach aphid, Myzus persicae.
1927*Peach-beige [see grège a. and n.].
1597Gerarde Herbal ii. cxi. 366 Of *Peach bels, and Steeple bels. 1611Cotgr., Campanettes blanches, White Peach-bels, or Steeple-bell-flowers.
[1835G. Field Chromatogr. 265 (Index), Black..Peach-stone 180. Ibid. xxi. 180 Similar blacks are prepared of vine twigs and tendrils,..also from peach-stones, &c. whence Almond black.] 1869T. W. Salter Field's Chromatogr. (new ed.) xxi. 407 *Peach Black, or Almond Black, made by burning the stones of fruits, the shell of the cocoa-nut, &c., is a violet-black, once much used by Parisian artists. 1948F. A. Staples Watercolour Painting (1951) i. 3 You will want to add the following to the palette: Raw Sienna,..New Blue and Peach Black. 1963Times 6 May 16/3 Many students will remember how much ‘Corfi’ enjoyed laying a wash of thickly sedimented peach black and raw sienna on a drawing that had taken weeks to prepare.
1866Treas. Bot. 854 *Peach-blister, an affection to which peach-leaves are subject, the leaves becoming thick, bladdery, and curled.
1711W. Byrd Secret Diary 9 Sept. (1941) 403 After drinking two drams of *peach brandy we returned to Mrs. Randolph's. c1780[see apple-brandy]. 1814Scott Diary 10 Aug. in Lockhart, They could get from an American trader a bottle of peach-brandy or rum. 1881E. E. Frewer tr. Holub's Seven Years S. Afr. I. xi. 420 The next farm..was that belonging to Martin Zwart, whom we found engaged in distilling peach-brandy. 1965Amerine & Singleton Wine xvii. 268 Wines were made also from peaches and distilled into peach brandy. 1976J. McClure Rogue Eagle vii. 129 As peach brandy goes, this is among the best sluks I've ever tasted.
1666Boyle Formes & Qual. i. iii. Wks. 1772 III. 72 A *peach-bud does..change the sap that comes to it into a fruit very differing from that which the stock naturally produceth.
1859Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 2) 90 Cobbler... According to the fruit, it is an apple or a *peach cobbler. 1880[see cobbler 4]. 1947Reader's Digest Apr. 130/2 You could smell a peach cobbler all through dinner. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 28 Aug. 14/3 Peach cobbler (recipe follows).
1599J. Rider Bibl. Schol. 1709 A *peach colour, persicus color. 1605Lond. Prodigal i. B ij b, A peach colour satten shute, Cut vpon cloath of siluer. 1735Dict. Polygraph. s.v. Glass, To make a Peach colour in Glass.
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, ii. ii. 19 Take note how many paire of Silk stockings thou hast? (Viz. these, and those that were thy *peach-colour'd ones.) 1852Beck's Florist June 131 Daphne Mezereum..pretty peach-coloured blossoms.
1894M. Dyan All in a Man's K. (1899) 170 She smoothed one *peach-down cheek with complacency.
1796New Ann. Reg. 165 Not the shade Ambrosial, waving its *peach-flowers that blow To pearly grapes, and kiss the turf below. 1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 29 Peach-flower red—pale whitish red.
1865Our Young Folks I. 715 The *peach-fly was thus kept from laying its eggs in the soft bark at the surface of the ground. 1905Chambers's Jrnl. May 368/1 The peach..is not now obtainable, through the inroads of the peach-fly.
1971J. Drummond Farewell Party 8 A great sunset..a wash of *peach-green that ran across the sky.
[1887Bot. Gaz. XII. 216 (title) The ‘Curl’ of Peach Leaves. Ibid. Pl. xiii. (caption) Knowles on Peach Curl. 1888Amer. Naturalist XXII. 738 T[aphrina] deformans Tul., causing the ‘peach curl’ of the leaves of the peach tree. ]1899Bull. Cornell Univ. Agric. Exper. Station CLXIV. 371 *Peach leaf-curl is a disease which has long been known to the orchardist as well as to the botanist; and since the seasons of 1897 and 1898 there are probably very few peach growers..who are unfamiliar with the disease. 1904Westm. Gaz. 6 Oct. 10/2 A fungus disease called peach leaf-curl..does injury to the extent of {pstlg}600,000 annually in the United States. 1920P. J. Fryer Insect Pests & Fungus Dis. xxxv. 557 Peach Leaf Curl... Plants Attacked. Peaches, nectarines and almonds. 1955H. Wormald Dis. Fruit & Hops (ed. 3) vii. 172 Peach Leaf Curl..is found not only on peaches but also on nectarines and almonds. 1976Country Life 18 Mar. 685/3 Garlic is said to protect peaches from peach⁓leaf curl.
1597Gerarde Herbal ii. cxi. 366 Campanula Persicifolia. *Peach-leafed Bell flower..hath a great number of small and long leaues, rising in a great bush out of the ground, like the leaues of the Peach tree.
1834M. Scott Cruise Midge (1863) 169 His downy cheeks as *peach-like and blooming as ever.
1882Garden 9 Sept. 230/3 The *Peach Myrtle..is one of the many beautiful Australian plants.
1835J. Martin New Gazetteer Virginia 209 *Peach oak (so called from the resemblance of its leaves to that of the peach tree). 1897G. B Sudworth Nomencl. Arborescent Flora U.S. 177 Quercus phellos Linn. Willow Oak... Common Names... Peach Oak (N.J., Del., Ohio).
1676T. Glover in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. XI. 628 Here are likewise great *Peach-Orchards, which bear..an infinite quantity of Peaches. 1758Calendar Virginia State Papers (1875) I. 257 We..overtook them at a peach orchard. c1805D. McClure Diary (1899) 68 Between the house & the bank of the River was a..peach orchard. a1936Kipling Something of Myself (1937) vi. 170 A bull-kudu..would jump the seven-foot fence round our little peach orchard. 1955W. Moore Bring Jubilee xix. 185, I made my way towards a farm on which there was a wheat-field and a peach orchard. 1974Sat. Rev. World (U.S.) 2 Nov. 32/3 A long valley, green and golden with peach orchards—Canada's peach heartland.
1863Bates Nat. Amazon x. (1864) 325 The celebrated ‘*peach-palm’..is a common tree at Ega. The name, I suppose, is in allusion to the colour of the fruit, and not to its flavour.
1926M. Leinster Dew on Leaf i. vii. 97 Ah Dai fingered and thumbed a fragment of the *peach-pink silk he had unfurled for her inspection. 1934A. Huxley Beyond Mexique Bay 2 The last word in cocktail bars and peach-pink sanitary fittings. 1956R. Macaulay Towers of Trebizond xiv. 171 Through the windows I saw the circle of the Circassian mountains, indigo and brown and peach-pink in the sunset.
[1931K. M. Smith Textbk. Agric. Entomol. vi. 50 (heading) Potato and Peach Aphis.] 1951New Biol. XI. 51 The *peach-potato aphid..is the main carrier of the known plant virus diseases throughout the world. 1959Times 27 July 9/5 The aphids responsible for spreading the viruses—mainly the peach-potato aphid Myzus persicae—are able to multiply on the [potato] crop during the summer. 1975D. S. Hill Agric. Insect Pests of Tropics v. 163/1 Peach-Potato Aphid... Peach (primary host)... Potato (secondary host), and polyphagous on many other crop plants and weeds.
1926M. Leinster Dew on Leaf 114 My unborn son waits to clutch my heart-strings with *peach-red fingers, with the call of flesh to flesh. 1935W. de la Mare Poems, 1919–1934 377 Peach-red carnelian, apple-green chrysoprase, Amber and coral and orient pearl!
1941G. E. Shankle State Names (rev. ed.) ii. 110 Georgia was nicknamed The *Peach State in 1939 because ‘peaches have been an important product of Georgia since the middle of the sixteenth century’. 1954Nat. Geogr. Mag. Mar. 318/1 Georgia's automobile license plates carry the legend, ‘Peach State’. 1970G. Payton Webster's Dict. Proper Names 515/1 Peach State, a nickname for Georgia, where peaches are now a valuable crop in the center and south. 1976S. Wales Echo 26 Nov. 2/5 With out-of-state tourists flocking to Jimmy Carter's home town in Plains, Georgia, officials are looking for ways to lure the visitors to the peach state's other attractions.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Peschenoix, a *Peach stone. 1889R. Brydall Art in Scot. xiv. 288 [Nasmyth] used largely a colour he called peach-stone grey, made from calcined peach-stones.
1822J. Imison Sc. & Art II. 186 *Peach-wood gives a colour inferior to Brazil.
1814Cramer's Pittsburgh Mag. Almanac 1815 55 (heading) Remedy for the *Peach Worm. a1817T. Dwight Trav. New-Eng. (1821) I. 76 The Peach Worm has been known here for about fifty years; and is now become very common. 1856Rep. Comm. Patents: Agric. 1855 (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 299 The ravages of the peach⁓worm have proved more extensive than usual.
[1808R. Peters in Mem. Philad. Soc. for Promoting Agric. I. 23 Mr. H. begins to suffer by the disease, I call the ‘yellows’. Ibid. 24 The ‘yellows’ are seen making destructive ravages in Mr. Heston's peach plantation.] 1888Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric. Bot. Div. IX. 9 *Peach yellows appears to be confined exclusively to the Eastern United States. 1928F. T. Brooks Plant Dis. iii. 23 The only means of checking the spread of Peach Yellows is to destroy affected trees as soon as seen. 1956H. W. Anderson Dis. Fruit Crops vii. 265 Peach yellows is undoubtedly of American origin. 1974K. M. Smith Plant Viruses (ed. 5) i. 2 Two years later [sc. 1888], Erwin F. Smith proved that the disease known as ‘peach yellows’ was also communicable and could be transmitted by budding.
▪ II. peach, n.2 Min. local.
[f. prec.: see quot. 1811.]
Cornish miners' term for chlorite slate (see chlorite1 2); also distinguished as green peach. blue peach: see quots. 1877, 1881.
1778Pryce Min. Cornub. 325 When a load is composed mostly of this sort of stone, it is called a peach. 1811Pinkerton Petral. I. 128 Chlorite..is the green talc of Born, and the Samnterde of old German writers, perhaps from its velvety appearance. To the Cornish miners..it is also known by the name of peach. 1877Min. Mag. I. 75 The green peach of the Cornish tin mines is undoubtedly chlorite... Blue peach..is probably a bluish-gray variety of Tourmaline.
1881Raymond Mining Gloss., *Blue peach, Corn., a slate-blue, very fine-grained schorl-rock.
▪ III. ‖ peach, n.3 Obs.
Also peech.
[a. Russ. petchi oven, stove.]
A (Russian) stove.
1591G. Fletcher Russe Commw. xxviii. (Hakl. Soc.) 147 All the winter time..they heat their peaches, which are made lyke the Germane bathstoaves, and..so warme the house. 1778Phil. Trans. LXIX. 327 A number of billets of wood are placed in the peech or stove.
▪ IV. peach, v.|piːtʃ|
Forms: 5–6 peche, 6– peach.
[Aphetic form of a-peche: see appeach, and cf. impeach.]
1.
†a. trans. To accuse (a person) formally; to impeach, indict, bring to trial. Obs.
c1460Towneley Myst. xix. 239 At the day of dome I shall thaym peche. 1534Wriothesley Chron. (Camden) I. 25 The Lord Dakers..was pechid of high treason. 1693Tate in Dryden's Juvenal ii. (1697) 27 Shou'd Verres peach Thieves, Milo Murderers, Clodius tax Bawds, Cethegus Catiline. 1727Gay Begg. Op. i. x, Have him peach'd the next sessions.
fig.1638Chillingw. Relig. Prot. i. Pref. §18 Does he not in the same place peach Tertullian also?
b. To give incriminating evidence against, inform against (an accomplice or associate); to ‘round upon’. Now rare.
1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 1401/1 The sayd Frier..secretlye practised to peach him by letters sent vnto the Clergie here in England. 1607Middleton Phœnix v. i. 246 Let me have pardon, I beseech your grace, and I'll peach 'em all. 1690A. Behn Widow Ranter iv. ii, Wilt thou betray and peach thy friend? 1722De Foe Col. Jack (1840) 77 He has peached me and all the others, to save his life. 1903A. Lang in Pilot 20 June 591/2 Godfrey could not peach Coleman without peaching himself.
†c. fig. To betray. Obs.
1641Evelyn Diary 2 Jan., I did not amidst all this peach my liberty nor my vertue with the rest who made shipwreck of both.
d. transf. To blab, divulge. colloq.
1852Thackeray Esmond iii. ix, What! the soubrette has peached to the amoureux. 1883Haslam Yet Not I 105 I'm so thankful this has all come out without my peaching a word.
2. intr. or absol. To inform against an accomplice; to turn informer. Const. on, upon, against. Now chiefly slang or colloq.
1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. ii. 47 If I be tane, Ile peach for this. 1632B. Jonson Magn. Lady iv. ii, Will you go peach, and cry yourself a fool At grannam's cross! be laugh'd at and despised! 1717Savage Love in Veil iii. iii, Save my life, and I'll peach. 1816Trial Berkeley Poachers 34 An oath not to peach upon each other. 1847James Convict xxxvii, He might have got off himself if he had peached against others. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. xii. (1889) 110 I'm not going to peach if the proctor don't send again in the morning. 1881Punch 26 Nov. 241/2 Eve flirted with Jerrem; Adam, enraged, ‘peached’ on Jerrem. 1927Kipling Limits & Renewals (1932) 170 Will and I wouldn't have peached on him. 1966New Statesman 1 July 9/2 The other members of the gang..would not hesitate to peach on him if it would serve their purpose. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 17 July 17/3 Middle-level bureaucrats cravenly peach on their bosses everytime one of them does something the tiniest bit illegal, like violate the Constitution. 1978P. Lovesey Waxwork 123, I shan't ask you to peach on one of your neighbours... What I want from you is the name and address of the supplier.
Hence ˈpeaching vbl. n. and ppl. a.
a1460Gregory's Chron. in Hist. Coll. Citizen London (Camden) 186 There was a pechyng i-made uppon the Erle of Ormounde..for certayne poyntys of treson. 1519W. Horman Vulg. 216 b, In Tyberis dayes many stode in ieopardy of pechyng or of theyr lyfe. a1625Fletcher Bloody Bro. iii. ii, You chip pantler, you peaching rogue, that provided us These necklaces! 1818Moore Fudge Fam. Paris vi. 82 Give me the useful peaching Rat. 1859Green Oxf. Stud. ii. §7. 92 By peaching, our hero obtained a pardon.
▪ V. peach
obs. form of pech v. Sc. |