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Just to kill any vestiges of naivete in the neighborhood, Americans (unless they are out among the trees looking at birds and counting woodpeckers), only use the term in its very rudest sense.
The word "peck" is treated innocently enough ( a peck of corn, a bird pecks its food). It is only when it gets the suffix that it becomes naughty.
Sigh... Who knew that a children's book could be so fraught with peril?
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