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pecking (n.)
verbal noun from
peck
(v.), late 14c. As a behavior among hens,
pecking order
(1928) translates German
hackliste
(T.J. Schjelderuo-Ebbe, 1922); transferred sense of "human hierarchy based on rank or status" is from 1955.
