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In some senses, peach is marked as informal, obsolete, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noun
Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
I think it the best way to plant the fifteen sorts, and the hard Peaches I have mentioned, in the same order as they stand in the list.
Several attempts have been made to class the varieties of Peaches and Nectarines by the leaf and flower, as well as the fruit.
Soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed.
[A]nd that the English should eat peaches in May, and green pease in October, sounds to Italian ears as a miracle; they comfort themselves, however, by saying that they must be very insipid, while we know that fruits forced by strong fire are at least many of them higher in flavour than those produced by sun […]
When dissolved, stir it up well, and put in the peaches, without crowding them, and boil them slowly about twenty minutes.
A light yellow-red colour.
To dye one chip bonnet peach colour, put four ounces of cudbear in one gallon of water, make it boil, and put one ounce of soda in the liquor.
If the dye is for a light color such as peach, more dry dye could be used.
A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
How did the common expressions "She's a peach!" and "He has a peach of a job!" arise if not because the peach of all fruits is a symbol of perfection?
Walking on the beaches / looking at the peaches
adj
Of or pertaining to the color peach.
Looking around her very large and very peach open kitchen and family room, I couldn't believe my eyes, but I knew the color must be there for a reason.
The dining compartment was very peach.
Particularly pleasing or agreeable.
'That'll be just peach with me.'
If I explain that I won't help them maintain systems running proprietary software (I'll make an exception for firmware, sometimes.) they usually shrug their shoulders and ask someone else -- which is just peach with me.
verb
To inform on someone; turn informer.
If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this.
"But will your cousin tell?" was Ripton's reflection. "He!" Richard's lip expressed contempt. "A ploughman refuses to peach, and you ask if a Feverel will?"
To inform against.
Complaining of the conduct of Sir Ralph Robinson, parson of Brede, in Sussex, who took from him a psalter book in English, printed cum privilegio regali, and peached him of heresy, whereupon he was put in the stocks by the King's constable for two days.
[…] and finding out the residence of his brother Charles, desires him not to peach him, but to lend him a suit of his fine cloaths, that he might see what it was to be a fine gentleman […]