n.
1 a a round juicy stone-fruit with downy cream or yellow skin flushed with red. b the tree, Prunus persica, bearing it.
2 the yellowish-pink colour of a peach.
3 colloq. a a person or thing of superlative quality. b an attractive young woman.
Phrases and idioms:
peach-bloom an oriental porcelain-glaze of reddish pink, usu. with green markings. peach-blow
1 a delicate purplish-pink colour.
2 = peach-bloom. peaches and cream (of a complexion) creamy skin with downy pink cheeks. peach Melba see MELBA.
Derivatives:
peachy adj. (peachier, peachiest). peachiness n.
Etymology: ME f. OF peche, pesche, f. med.L persica f. L persicum (malum), lit. Persian apple
2.
v.
1 intr. (usu. foll. by against, on) colloq. turn informer; inform.
2 tr. archaic inform against.
Etymology: ME f. appeach f. AF enpecher, OF empechier IMPEACH
Useful english dictionary. 2012.