peach
noun
[ piːtʃ ]
• a round stone fruit with juicy yellow flesh and downy pinkish-yellow skin.
• the Chinese tree that bears peaches.
• an exceptionally good or attractive person or thing.
• "what a peach of a shot!"
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French pesche, from medieval Latin persica, from Latin persicum (malum ), literally ‘Persian apple’.
peach
verb
• inform on.
• "the other members of the gang would not hesitate to peach on him"
Origin:
late Middle English: shortening of archaic appeach, from Old French empechier ‘impede’ (see impeach).
