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Examples of peckish
peckish
If you're feeling extra peckish, order slices of buttered white bread on the side.
From the metro.co.uk
For the peckish, there were outposts of the fashionable Le Caprice and Harry's Bar.
From the economist.com
There's no TV or music and not a menu in sight for customers feeling peckish.
From the metro.co.uk
If I'm feeling peckish, I'll have a banana, some dry cereal or a few raisins.
From the guardian.co.uk
Yet nearly as soon as The Da Vinci Code began, the critics fell into a peckish mood.
From the time.com
I may be a little peckish, but I'm not getting along too badly as a rawie.
From the independent.co.uk
If you start to feel peckish you can nip across for one of the hotel's famous steaks.
From the couriermail.com.au
Had been feeling peckish and was delighted to come across this product at Sigma-Aldrich.
From the guardian.co.uk
If you're peckish, pick up some fish and chips and eat them on the beach.
From the cnn.com
- Somewhat hungry
- Cranky: easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
- Mildly hungry^[1]; irritable; crotchety; Of or pertaining to Peckham, a place in Southwark London; Native to Peckham
- Feeling hungry, the urge to nibble. Pass a platter of scrummy appetizers and ask "Anyone feeling peckish?"
- Hungry; having an inclination for a snack.
- Adj. Absolutely nothing to do with peckers, a person described as peckish is a little hungry. Only a little hungry, mind, not ravenous - you wouldn't hear people on the news talking about refugees who'd tramped across mountains for two weeks and were as a result a little peckish.
