often followed by `of' A large number or amount or extent.

synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad ... show more.

Roget 102: multitude; numerous etc. adj.; numerosity, numerality; multiplicity; profusion etc. (plenty) 639; legion, host; great number, large number, round number, enormous number; a quantity, numbers, array, sight, army, sea, galaxy; scores, peck, bushel, shoal, swarm, draught, bevy, cloud, flock, herd, drove, flight, covey, hive, brood, litter, farrow, fry, nest; crowd etc. (assemblage) 72; lots; all in the world and his wife.    [Increase of number] greater number, majority; multiplication, multiple.    ... show more

Roget 31: greatness etc. adj.; magnitude; size etc. (dimensions) 192; multitude etc. (number) 102; immensity; enormity; infinity etc. 105; might, strength, intensity, fullness; importance etc. 642.    great quantity, quantity, deal, power, sight, pot, volume, world; mass, heap etc. (assemblage) 72; stock etc. (store) 636; peck, bushel, load, cargo; cartload^†, wagonload, shipload; flood, spring tide; abundance etc. (sufficiency) 639.    principal part, chief part, main part, greater part, major part, best part, essential part; bulk, mass etc. (whole) 50.    ... show more

Dutch: bende, berg, boel, bom, bulk, bups, een groot aantal, hoop, kluit, kwak, lading, massa, pak, partij, schep, smak, stelletje, stoot, troep, veelheid, vracht, zooi, zwik ... show more
Polish: legion, zastęp, armia, tabun

A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons.

A United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches.

Hit lightly with a picking motion.

synonyms: beak, pick.

Roget 298: eat, feed, fare, devour, swallow, take; gulp, bolt, snap; fall to; despatch, dispatch; discuss; take down, get down, gulp down; lay in, tuck in [Slang]; lick, pick, peck; gormandize etc. 957; bite, champ, munch, cranch^†, craunch^†, crunch, chew, masticate, nibble, gnaw, mumble.    live on; feed upon, batten upon, fatten upon, feast upon; browse, graze, crop, regale; carouse etc. (make merry) 840; eat heartily, do justice to, play a good knife and fork, banquet.    break bread, break one's fast; breakfast, lunch, dine, take tea, sup.    drink in, drink up, drink one's fill; quaff, sip, sup; suck, suck up; lap; swig; swill [Slang], chugalug [Slang], tipple etc. (be drunken) 959; empty one's glass, drain the cup; toss off, toss one's glass; wash down, crack a bottle, wet one's whistle.    purvey etc. 637.    ... show more

Eat by pecking at, like a bird.

synonym: pick up.

Dutch: pikken

Kiss lightly.

synonym: smack.

Eat like a bird.

synonyms: peck at, pick at.

Bother persistently with trivial complaints.

synonyms: hen-peck, nag.

Dutch: emmeren, griepen, lazeren, malen, mauwen, meieren, mekken, mekkeren, mieren, neuzelen, piepen, reutelen, zagen, zaniken, zeiken, zemelen, zemelknopen, zeuren, zeveren, zieken ... show more