Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - peach
Peach
peach
1. n. 1 a a round juicy stone-fruit with downy cream or yellow skin flushed with red. b the tree, Prunus persica, bearing it. 2 the yellowish-pink colour of a peach. 3 colloq. a a person or thing of superlative quality. b an attractive young woman. Phrases and idioms peach-bloom an oriental porcelain-glaze of reddish pink, usu. with green markings. peach-blow 1 a delicate purplish-pink colour. 2 = peach-bloom. peaches and cream (of a complexion) creamy skin with downy pink cheeks. peach Melba see MELBA. Derivatives peachy adj. (peachier, peachiest). peachiness n. Etymology: ME f. OF peche, pesche, f. med.L persica f. L persicum (malum), lit. Persian apple 2. v. 1 intr. (usu. foll. by against, on) colloq. turn informer; inform. 2 tr. archaic inform against. Etymology: ME f. appeach f. AF enpecher, OF empechier IMPEACH
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English peche, from Anglo-French pesche, peche (the fruit), from Late Latin persica, from Latin (malum) persicum, literally, Persian fruit Date: 14th century 1. a low spreading freely branching Chinese tree (Prunus persica) of the rose family that has lanceolate leaves and sessile usually pink flowers and is widely cultivated in temperate areas for its edible fruit which is a single-seeded drupe with a hard central stone, a pulpy white or yellow flesh, and a thin fuzzy skin, the edible fruit of the ~, a moderate yellowish pink, one resembling a ~ (as in sweetness, beauty, or excellence), II. verb see: im~ Date: 1560 transitive verb to inform against ; betray, intransitive verb to turn informer ; blab ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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