Green’s Dictionary of Slang

bushel (and peck) n.

the neck.

1891		J. Bent Criminal Life 272: Bushel and Peck ... Neck.
1893		P.H. Emerson Signor Lippo 55: One day he walked straight into this kitchen clobbered in a black pair of rounds, tight to his legs, [...] and ’alf a dollar round his bushell and a long sleeve cadi on his napper.
1921		N&Q 12 Ser. IX 345: Bushel an’ Peck. One’s neck.
1924		Mail (Adelaide) 16 Feb. 1/4: This is how a class of rhyming ‘slangsters’ [...] discourse on anatomy:— Neck— Bushel and peck.
1930		(con. 1910–20s) D. Mackenzie Hell’s Kitchen 118: Bushel and peck ... neck.
1940		Western Dly Press 13 Aug. 3/5: 'Bushel and peck' (Neck).
1953		J. Franklyn Cockney 293: He may then say when he has got it down his bushel and peck (neck) he intends to take a ball o’ chalk (walk).
1969		S.T. Kendall Up the Frog 11: Old oats and barley ’as a lovely Conan Doyle on the back of ’is bushel and peck.
1979		R. Barker Fletcher’s Book of Rhy. Sl. 25: His bushel and peck was extremely two-thirty.
1981		P. Wright Cockney Dialect and Sl. 105: bushel an’ peck ‘neck’.
2001		M. Coles Bible in Cockney 32: He [...] put a lovely gold chain round ’is bushel.
2002		M. Coles More Bible in Cockney 48: Your bushel-and-peck is like an ivory tower.