peaches

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of peach.

   The orchard sold fresh peaches by the crate all summer.

   She sliced two peaches into the morning oatmeal.

   Note

   The -es plural that nouns ending in a hissing -ch take, adding a full syllable in speech. It serves the fruit, the tree and the informal compliment alike (the new neighbors are real peaches). The color name, however, is a mass noun and seldom takes this form. The same spelling is also the verb meaning to inform, so the sentence around it decides which word is meant.

2. 2
   verbobsolete

   Third-person singular simple present of peach. Archaic.

   Note

   A verb form that has outlived its verb. To peach, meaning to inform on someone, is obsolete, so this form now belongs to older prose or to writing that deliberately sounds like it. It works two ways: on its own with on (he peaches on his partners), or with a direct object (she peaches her accomplice). Despite the shared spelling, it has nothing to do with the fruit plural.

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