A peach is a soft, round, slightly furry fruit with sweet yellow flesh and pinky-orange skin. Peaches grow in warm countries.
2. colour
Something that is peach is pale pinky-orange in colour.
...the romantic Tower Suite, decorated throughout in peach and ivory.
...a peach silk blouse.
3. singular noun [oft aNof n]
If you describe someone or something as a peach, you find them very pleasing or attractive.
[informal, approval]
Frank was there and he is a perfect peach.
...a peach of a goal from the team's captain.
peach in British English1
(piːtʃ)
noun
1.
a small rosaceous tree, Prunus persica, with pink flowers and rounded edible fruit: cultivated in temperate regions
See also nectarine (sense 1)
2.
the soft juicy fruit of this tree, which has a downy reddish-yellow skin, yellowish-orange sweet flesh, and a single stone
See also nectarine (sense 2)
3.
a.
a pinkish-yellow to orange colour
b.
(as adjective)
a peach dress
4. informal
a person or thing that is especially pleasing
Word origin
C14 peche, from Old French, from Medieval Latin persica, from Latin Persicum mālum Persian apple
peach in British English2
(piːtʃ)
verb
(intr except in obsolete uses) slang
to inform against an accomplice
Derived forms
peacher (ˈpeacher)
noun
Word origin
C15: variant of earlier apeche, from French, from Late Latin impedicāre to entangle; see impeach
peach in American English1
(pitʃ)
noun
1.
a small prunus tree (Prunus persica) with lance-shaped leaves, pink flowers, and round, juicy, orange-yellow or pinkish-yellowfruit having a fuzzy skin and a single, rough pit
2.
its fruit
3.
the orange-yellow or pinkish-yellow color of this fruit
4. Slang
any person or thing that is very good or is well liked
Word origin
ME peche < OFr pesche < VL persica < pl. of L persicum < Persicum (malum), Persian (apple)
peach in American English2
(pitʃ)
verb transitive
1. Obsolete
to name in an indictment; impeach
verb intransitive
2. Slang
to give evidence against another; turn informer
Word origin
ME pechen, aphetic for apechen, via Anglo-Fr < OFr empechier, impeach