peach

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peach1

▶noun

• 1 a round stone fruit with juicy yellow flesh and downy yellow skin flushed with red.

• 2 the Chinese tree which bears peaches. [Prunus persica.]

• 3 a pinkish-orange colour like that of a peach.

• 4 informal an exceptionally good or attractive person or thing.

– phrases
peaches and cream (of a person's complexion) of a cream colour with downy pink cheeks.

– origin ME: from OFr. pesche, from med. L. persica, from L. persicum (malum), lit. ‘Persian apple’.

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peach2

▶verb (peach on) informal inform on.

– origin ME: shortening of archaic appeach, from OFr. empechier (see impeach).