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Pech

//pɛk// name, verb

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An indigenous Amerindian language spoken in Honduras.
Verb
  1. 1
    To pant, to struggle for breath. Northern-England, Scotland

    "An' as they breisted the lang lang hill / The puir horse graned and peched."

Etymology

Borrowed from Scots pech, apparently of imitative origin.

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