pec

• Rhymes: -ɛk

Clipping of pectoral.

pec (plural pecs)

1. (colloquial, usually in the plural) The pectoralis major muscle.

   He's flexing his pecs at anyone who'll look.

   • 2022 March 5, Alex Hawgood, “What Is ‘Bigorexia’?”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     The quest for perfect pecs is so strong that psychiatrists now sometimes refer to it as “bigorexia,” a form of muscle dysmorphia exhibited mostly by men and characterized by excessive weight lifting, a preoccupation with not feeling muscular enough and a strict adherence to eating foods that lower weight and build muscle.

2. (birdwatching) Clipping of pectoral sandpiper.
   • 2016 August 1, Trevor Lee, “Another pec.”, in Lincsbirders‎^[2] (blog), archived from the original on 1 January 2025:

     Greenshank, dunlins, common sand, snipe and blackwits accompanied the pec.

   • 2019 November 21, Stan Jarzynski, “Possible Pectoral Sandpiper”, in canberrabirds mailing list‎^[3]:

     I went back into my photos, and yes, on 13 Nov, I photographed both Sharpie and the Pec.

• pec bounce
• pec deck
• pec pop

From Latin pecūnia (“money”).

pec (uncountable)

1. (UK, slang, obsolete, Eton College) Money.

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

• CEP, CPE, ECP, EPC, PCE, cep, pce

From Proto-Albanian *paitsa, from Proto-Indo-European *peiḱ. Related to Old Norse feigr (“close to death”), Lithuanian pai̇̃kas (“stupid”).^[1]

pec (feminine pece)

1. shortsighted, blind

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpek]

pec (feminine pega, masculine plural pecs, feminine plural pegues)

1. (archaic or regional) stupid

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɛt͡s]

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• Rhymes: -ɛts

Inherited from Old Czech pec, from Proto-Slavic *peťь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *péktis, from Proto-Indo-European *pékʷtis, from *pekʷ-.

pec f (diminutive pecička or pícka)

1. oven, furnace
2. furnace (device that heats materials being processed in a factory)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pec

1. (archaic) second-person singular imperative of péct

   Synonym: peč

• “pec”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “pec”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “pec”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025
• “pec”, in Český jazykový atlas [Czech Linguistic Atlas] (in Czech), volume 1, number 173, 2012–2014

Clipping of pectoral.

• IPA^(key): /pɛk/

pec m (plural pecs)

1. (informal, usually in the plural) pec (pectoralis major muscle)

   Synonym: pecto

• abdo

• “pec”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *peťь.

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈpɛt͡s/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈpɛt͡s/

pec f

1. oven, furnace

   ohnivá pec ― hell

2. (biblical) pile of hay (in the shape of a furnace)

• Czech: pec

pec

1. supine of péci
2. second/third-person singular imperative of péci

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “pec”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *peťь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *péktis, from Proto-Indo-European *pékʷtis, from *pekʷ-.

• IPA^(key): [pet͡s]

pec f (diminutive piecka)

1. oven

• pecný
• pecový
• piecka

• “pec”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025