Synonyms of the word beak


BEAKBILL - HONKER - HOOTER - MOUTH - NEB - NIB - NOSE - NOZZLE - PECK - PECKER - PICK - SCHNOZ - SCHNOZZLE - SNOOT - SNOUT - STRIKE

beak

  • n. Anatomical uses.
  • n. Figurative uses.
  • n. Colloquial uses.
  • v. (transitive) Strike with the beak.
  • v. (transitive) Seize with the beak.

bill

  • n. Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later…
  • n. A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
  • n. Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
  • n. A pickaxe, or mattock.
  • n. (nautical) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
  • v. (transitive) To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.
  • n. The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a turtle,…
  • n. A beak-like projection, especially a promontory.
  • n. (of a hat or cap) The peak or brim, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
  • v. (obsolete) To peck.
  • v. To stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness.
  • n. A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill…
  • n. A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain…
  • n. A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
  • n. (obsolete, law) A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the…
  • n. (US) A piece of paper money; a banknote.
  • n. A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.
  • n. A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play,…
  • n. A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without…
  • n. A set of items presented together.
  • v. (transitive) To advertise by a bill or public notice.
  • v. (transitive) To charge; to send a bill to.
  • n. The bell, or boom, of the bittern.

honker

  • n. One who honks.
  • n. (informal) A large nose.
  • n. (informal) A wild goose.

hooter

  • n. A horn in a motor vehicle.
  • n. (slang) A nose, especially a large one.
  • n. (slang, usually in the plural) A woman's breast.
  • n. An owl.

mouth

  • n. (anatomy) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
  • n. The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.
  • n. An outlet, aperture or orifice.
  • n. (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
  • n. (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
  • n. (obsolete) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
  • n. (obsolete) Cry; voice.
  • n. (obsolete) Speech; language; testimony.
  • n. (obsolete) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
  • v. (transitive) To speak; to utter.
  • v. (transitive) To make the actions of speech, without producing sound.
  • v. (transitive) To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
  • v. (obsolete) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
  • v. (obsolete) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
  • v. (obsolete) To make mouths at.

neb

  • n. (now dialectal) A bird's beak or bill.
  • n. (obsolete) A person's mouth.
  • n. (now dialectal) A person's nose.
  • n. (now dialectal) The nose or snout of an animal, now especially of a fish.
  • n. (now dialectal) A projecting extremity; a point or sharp projection.
  • n. (now dialectal) A nib, as of a pen.

nib

  • n. The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper.
  • n. The bill or beak of a bird; the neb.
  • n. Bits of trapped dust or other foreign material that form imperfections in painted or varnished surfaces.
  • n. A piece of a roasted, hulled cocoa bean.
  • n. A small and pointed thing or part; a point; a prong.
  • n. One of the handles projecting from a scythe snath.
  • n. The shaft of a wagon.

nose

  • n. A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell.
  • n. A snout, the nose of an animal.
  • n. The tip of an object.
  • n. (horse racing) The length of a horse’s nose, used to indicate the distance between horses at the finish…
  • n. A perfumer.
  • n. The power of smelling.
  • n. Bouquet, the smell of something, especially wine.
  • n. The skill in recognising bouquet.
  • n. (by extension) Skill at finding information.
  • v. (intransitive) To move cautiously by advancing its front end.
  • v. (intransitive) To snoop.
  • v. (transitive) To detect by smell or as if by smell.
  • v. (transitive) To push with one's nose; to nuzzle.
  • v. (transitive) To defeat (as in a race or other contest) by a narrow margin; sometimes with out.
  • v. (transitive) To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang.
  • v. (transitive) To furnish with a nose.
  • v. (transitive) To confront; be closely face to face or opposite to.

nozzle

  • n. A short tube, usually tapering, forming the vent of a hose or pipe.
  • n. A short outlet or inlet pipe projecting from the end or side of a hollow vessel, as a steam-engine cylinder…
  • n. The nose of an animal; muzzle.

peck

  • v. To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird) or similar instrument.
  • v. (transitive) To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.
  • v. To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick…
  • v. To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.
  • v. To do something in small, intermittent pieces.
  • v. To type by searching for each key individually.
  • v. (rare) To type in general.
  • v. To kiss briefly.
  • n. An act of pecking.
  • n. A small kiss.
  • n. One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts.
  • n. A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
  • v. (regional) To throw.
  • v. To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of…
  • n. Discoloration caused by fungus growth or insects.
  • n. Misspelling of pec.

pecker

  • n. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly.
  • n. (Britain colloquial, by extension from ‘beak’) A nose.
  • n. (Britain colloquial, by extension, from the expression ‘keep one's pecker up’) Spirits, nerve, courage.
  • n. (chiefly plural, pejorative slang) Short for peckerwood ("whitey; white trash").
  • n. (chiefly plural, pejorative slang) Short for peckerhead ("dickhead; an aggressive or objectionable idiot").
  • n. (US) Clipping of pecker head ("an electric motor's junction or terminal connection box, where power cords…

pick

  • n. A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
  • n. A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
  • n. A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
  • n. A choice; ability to choose.
  • n. That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
  • n. (basketball) A screen.
  • n. (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
  • n. (American football) An interception.
  • n. (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
  • n. (baseball) A pickoff.
  • n. (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
  • n. A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
  • n. (obsolete) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
  • n. (printing, dated) A particle of ink or paper embedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face,…
  • n. (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
  • n. (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute);…
  • v. To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
  • v. To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached;…
  • v. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
  • v. To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
  • v. To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
  • v. To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
  • v. (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand…
  • v. (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
  • v. To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
  • v. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
  • v. To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
  • v. To steal; to pilfer.
  • v. (obsolete) To throw; to pitch.
  • v. (dated) To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.

schnoz

  • n. (slang) The human nose.

schnozzle

  • n. (slang) The human nose, especially one that is large.

snoot

  • n. (slang) Nose.
  • n. (theater) A cylindrical or conical attachment used on a spotlight to restrict spill light.

snout

  • n. The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.
  • n. The front of the prow of a ship or boat.
  • n. (derogatory) A person's nose.
  • n. The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.
  • n. The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; a rostrum.
  • n. The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles; a rostrum.
  • n. (Britain, slang) Tobacco; cigarettes.
  • n. The terminus of a glacier.
  • n. (slang) A police informer.
  • v. To furnish with a nozzle or point.

strike

  • v. (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
  • v. (heading, physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect.
  • v. (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
  • v. (heading, personal, social) To have a sharp or severe effect.
  • v. To touch; to act by appulse.
  • v. (heading, transitive) To take down, especially in the following contexts.
  • v. (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
  • v. (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
  • v. (dated) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.
  • v. (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
  • v. To make and ratify.
  • v. To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level…
  • v. (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
  • v. To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
  • v. To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.
  • v. To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
  • v. (obsolete) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.
  • v. To balance (a ledger or account).
  • n. (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when…
  • n. (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
  • n. A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
  • n. A blow or application of physical force against something.
  • n. (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise…
  • n. An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
  • n. (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
  • n. The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
  • n. (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the…
  • n. An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is…
  • n. (obsolete) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
  • n. An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
  • n. (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
  • n. (obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.
  • n. The discovery of a source of something.
  • n. A strike plate.

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