What (who) is peckish - definition
Peckish
·adj Inclined to eat; hungry.
peckish
¦ adjective informal, chiefly Brit. hungry.
peckish
If you say that you are feeling peckish, you mean that you are slightly hungry. (BRIT INFORMAL)
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Examples of use of peckish
1. With that, feeling no doubt peckish, Gatting departed, followed by the crowd.
2. Before the Sheffield leg of her UK tour some years back, Houston felt peckish.
3. But when you‘re peckish and you spot a juicy piece of fruit, you‘d be bananas to pass it up.
4. The apple, she says, must have been thrown by a peckish friend who was waiting in the car.
5. He went home and was a bit peckish and saw the meal in the fridge and decided to eat it.