peaches Definition

peach¹
noun peaches

1. Any of numerous varieties of a small deciduous tree, widely cultivated in warm temperate regions for its edible fruit or for ornament.
2. The large round fruit of this tree, consisting of a hard stone surrounded by sweet juicy yellow flesh and a yellowish-pink velvety skin.
3. The yellowish-pink colour of this fruit.
4. colloq
Something delightful.
Example: a peach of a day
5. colloq
A lovely young woman.

adj

1. Peach-coloured.

Example: a peach blouse

Etymology: 15c: from French pesche, from Latin persicum malum Persian apple.

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peach²
verb

peaches, peached, peaching
1. colloq
To betray or inform on them, especially on an accomplice.
Form: peach on someone (always)

Etymology: 15c as pesche in obsolete sense ‘to accuse or impeach', from obsolete apeche to hinder.