peach´like´

peach¹ «peech», noun, adjective.

–n.

1. a juicy, nearly round fruit of a yellowish-pink color, with downy skin, a sweet pulp, and a rough stone or pit. It is good to eat. Peaches are grown in temperate climates in many varieties. Peaches are called clingstones if the pulp sticks to the stone, or free stones if it separates from the stone easily.

2. the tree that this fruit grows on. It belongs to the rose family.

3. = peach blossom. (Cf. ↑peach blossom)

4. any of various similar trees or fruits.

5. a yellowish pink.

6. Slang. a person or thing especially admired or liked: »

Produce dealers here were getting a peach of a price for peaches today (New York Times).

–adj.

yellowish-pink.

╂[< Old French peche, earlier pesche < Late Latin persica < Latin Persica, plural of Persicum (mālum) (literally) Persian apple < Greek Persikón (mâlon)]

–peach´like´, adjective.

peach² «peech», intransitive verb.

Slang. to give secret information; turn informer: »

No good was to be got by peaching on him (Henry Kingsley).

–v.t.

Obsolete. to impeach or indict.

╂[short for Middle English apechen appeach < Anglo-French apecher, Old French empechier hinder, impeach < Late Latin impedicāre]