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peach (noun,verb) –
noun
1a : 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
b : the edible fruit of the peach
2 : a moderate yellowish pink
3 : one resembling a peach (as in sweetness, beauty, or excellence)
verb
: to inform against
: to turn informer
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology :The origins of the verb are completely different from the noun. The fruit peach is an unrelated word that traces back to the Latin phrase malum persicum, literally meaning “Persian fruit.” The verb that we are featuring today evolved from Middle English apechen (“to accuse”), itself an offspring of an Anglo-French verb meaning “to ensnare.” That Anglo-French word is also an ancestor of the English verb impeach, meaning “to bring an accusation against.” Both of these English verbs can be traced back further to a Latin word for a shackle for the feet, and that word is itself rooted in ped-, pes, meaning “foot.”
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