Peck's bad boy

English Etymology After Peck's Bad Boy, a character created by George Wilbur Peck (1840–1916). Noun Peck's bad boy A mean-spirited young prankster. en 1885 Horace Smith Fulkerson Random Recollections of Early Days in Mississippi 80 I was not "a character" in any sense, could not have been the original of any sensational story from the best boy in Sunday school to a Peck's bad boy. en 2011 Jack Smiles Bucky Harris: A Biography of Baseball's Boy Wonder 7 Bucky had a reputation around his Hughestown neighborhood, too, where the adults thought of Bucky as something of a Peck's bad boy. en eponyms