peach

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.

   I think it the best way to plant the fifteen sorts, and the hard Peaches I have mentioned, in the same order as they stand in the list.

2. 2
   noun

   Soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed.

   [A]nd that the English should eat peaches in May, and green pease in October, sounds to Italian ears as a miracle; they comfort themselves, however, by saying that they must be very insipid, while we know that fruits forced by strong fire are at least many of them higher in flavour than those produced by sun […]

3. 3
   noun

   A light yellow-red colour.

   To dye one chip bonnet peach colour, put four ounces of cudbear in one gallon of water, make it boil, and put one ounce of soda in the liquor.

4. 4
   noun

   A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.

   How did the common expressions "She's a peach!" and "He has a peach of a job!" arise if not because the peach of all fruits is a symbol of perfection?

5. 5
   noun

   Buttock or bottom.

   Down on the beaches, just look at all the peaches

6. 6
   adj

   Of or pertaining to the color peach.

   Looking around her very large and very peach open kitchen and family room, I couldn't believe my eyes, but I knew the color must be there for a reason.

7. 7
   adj

   Particularly pleasing or agreeable.

   'That'll be just peach with me.'

8. 8
   verb

   To inform on someone; turn informer.

   If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this.

Etymology

Etymology tree Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (p-a-r-s)bor. Ancient Greek Πέρσης (Pérsēs)der. Late Latin Persa Late Latin persicus Late Latin persicum Late Latin persica Vulgar Latin *pessica Old French peschebor. Middle English peche English peach From Middle English peche, borrowed from Old French pesche (French pêche), Vulgar Latin *pessica (cf. Medieval Latin pesca) from Late Latin persica, from Classical Latin mālum persicum, from Ancient Greek μᾶλον περσικόν (mâlon persikón, “Persian apple”). Displaced Middle English persogʒe, from Old English persoc, from the same Latin root above.