"pech" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Scots pech, apparently of imitative origin.",
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      "form": "pechs",
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      "form": "peching",
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      "form": "peched",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1913, John Buchan, Andrew Jameson, Lord Ardwall, page 136",
          "text": "An' as they breisted the lang lang hill / The puir horse graned and peched.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 321",
          "text": "Then Chris saw Bruce, the porter, come in, with the mark on his jaw where his godfather hit him, then Leslie, the smith, paiching and sweating, he dropped his stick with an awful clatter.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1954, Robin Jenkins, The Thistle and the Grail, published 1994, page 225",
          "text": "She peched and had to rest often.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 207",
          "text": "When Graham reached him, however, he felt so exhausted he could not immediately explain; he had to sit on the ground, peching like a seal.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1994, James Kelman, How Late it Was, How Late",
          "text": "If he could just stop breathing and listen but he was peching too much from the climb.",
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        "To pant, to struggle for breath."
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          "pant",
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        "(Scotland, Northern England) To pant, to struggle for breath."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "paich"
        },
        {
          "word": "pegh"
        }
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      "rhymes": "-ɛx"
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    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛk"
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        "present",
        "singular",
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    {
      "form": "peching",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "peched",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
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      "form": "peched",
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        "past"
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          "ref": "1913, John Buchan, Andrew Jameson, Lord Ardwall, page 136",
          "text": "An' as they breisted the lang lang hill / The puir horse graned and peched.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 321",
          "text": "Then Chris saw Bruce, the porter, come in, with the mark on his jaw where his godfather hit him, then Leslie, the smith, paiching and sweating, he dropped his stick with an awful clatter.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1954, Robin Jenkins, The Thistle and the Grail, published 1994, page 225",
          "text": "She peched and had to rest often.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
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          "text": "When Graham reached him, however, he felt so exhausted he could not immediately explain; he had to sit on the ground, peching like a seal.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "text": "If he could just stop breathing and listen but he was peching too much from the climb.",
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        "(Scotland, Northern England) To pant, to struggle for breath."
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "paich"
    },
    {
      "word": "pegh"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pech"
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