1859, U.S. Southern black dialectal inversion of woodpecker; in folklore, taken as the type of white people, especially poor whites (1929), and symbolically contrasted with blackbird.
peccary
peccavi
peck
Peck's bad boy
pecker
peckerwood
pecking
peckish
Pecksniffian
pectin
pectinate
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