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Peasant
- noun - a country person
- a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
- one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers
Pebrine
- - An epidemic disease of the silkworm, characterized by the presence of minute vibratory corpuscles in the blood.
Peccant
- adjective - liable to sin; "a frail and peccable mortal"- Sir Walter Scott
Pecking
- verb - bother persistently with trivial complaints; "She nags her husband all day long"
- eat by pecking at, like a bird
- eat like a bird; "The anorexic girl just picks at her food"
- hit lightly with a picking motion
- kiss lightly
Pectins
- noun - any of various water-soluble colloidal carbohydrates that occur in ripe fruit and vegetables; used in making fruit jellies and jams
Peeking
- verb - throw a glance at; take a brief look at; "She only glanced at the paper"; "I only peeked--I didn't see anything interesting"
Peeling
- verb - come off in flakes or thin small pieces; "The paint in my house is peeling off"
- get undressed; "please don't undress in front of everybody!"; "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living"
- loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales
- strip the skin off; "pare apples"
Peeping
- verb - appear as though from hiding; "the new moon peeped through the tree tops"
- cause to appear; "he peeped his head through the window"
- look furtively; "He peeped at the woman through the window"
- make high-pitched sounds; "the birds were chirping in the bushes"
- speak in a hesitant and high-pitched tone of voice
Peering
- verb - look searchingly; "We peered into the back of the shop to see whether a salesman was around"
Peeving
- verb - cause to be annoyed, irritated, or resentful