peach

noun6

1. •
   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.

   • When dissolved, stir it up well, and put in the peaches, without crowding them, and boil them slowly about twenty minutes. — 1869
2. •
   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. — 1854
3. •
   (informal) 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? — 1922
4. •
   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. — 1768
5. •
   (slang) Buttock or bottom.

   • Gia danced around a little, shaking her peaches for show. She shook it hard. Too hard. In the middle of a shimmy, her stomach cramped. A fart slipped out. A loud one. And stinky. — 2011
6. •
   (no longer used) A particular rock found in tin mines, sometimes associated with chlorite.

   • A quartz (sparry) vein, unless accompanied by other minerals such as peach, chlorite, &c., is considered valueless as an indication of the presence of ore. — 1908

adjective2

1. •
   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. — 2006
2. •
   Particularly pleasing or agreeable.

   • 'That'll be just peach with me.' — 2000

verb2

1. •
   (no longer used) To inform on someone; turn informer.

   • If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this. — 1623
2. •
   (no longer used) To inform against.

   • […] 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 […] — 1774

noun1

1. •
   (US, informal) A native or resident of Georgia in the United States.