[syn: spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Peach \Peach\ (p[=e]ch), v. t. [See Appeach, Impeach.]
To accuse of crime; to inform against. [Obs.] --Foxe.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Peach \Peach\, v. i.
To turn informer; to betray one's accomplice. [Obs. or
Colloq.]
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If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Peach \Peach\ (p[=e]ch), n. [OE. peche, peshe, OF. pesche, F.
p[^e]che, fr. LL. persia, L. Persicum (sc. malum) a Persian
apple, a peach. Cf. Persian, and Parsee.]
1. (Bot.) A well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing
one or two seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone.
In the wild stock the fruit is hard and inedible.
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2. The tree (Prunus Persica syn. Amygdalus Persica) which
bears the peach fruit.
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3. The pale red color of the peach blossom, or the light
pinkish yellow of the peach fruit.
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Guinea peach, or Sierra Leone peach, the large edible
berry of the Sarcocephalus esculentus, a rubiaceous
climbing shrub of west tropical Africa.
Palm peach, the fruit of a Venezuelan palm tree (Bactris
speciosa).
Peach color, the pale red color of the peach blossom.
Peach-tree borer (Zool.), the larva of a clearwing moth
(Aegeria exitiosa, or Sannina, exitiosa) of the family
Aegeriidae, which is very destructive to peach trees by
boring in the wood, usually near the ground; also, the
moth itself. See Illust. under Borer.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
peach
n 1: cultivated in temperate regions [syn: peach, peach
tree, Prunus persica]
2: a very attractive or seductive looking woman [syn: smasher,
stunner, knockout, beauty, ravisher, sweetheart,
peach, lulu, looker, mantrap, dish]
3: downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh
4: a shade of pink tinged with yellow [syn: yellowish pink,
apricot, peach, salmon pink]
v 1: divulge confidential information or secrets; "Be careful--
his secretary talks" [syn: spill the beans, let the cat
out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach,
babble, sing, babble out, blab out] [ant: keep
one's mouth shut, keep quiet, shut one's mouth]