adjective

• Hungry.

  More example sentences

  • ‘I hadn't eaten and was quite peckish’
  • ‘And if you get peckish there's a café, which uses organic produce from the farm's garden whenever possible, and a shop which sells organic vegetables, herbs, plants, honey and eggs.’
  • ‘Heck, you should even feel free to breastfeed while reading this column, ladies, if your little one is feeling a bit peckish.’
  • ‘But there's no real mystery: you bought it while peckish.’
  • ‘‘I'm always a little peckish when I get to the top of a mountain,’ said Max.’
  • ‘You order some more food, because you're peckish.’
  • ‘I only had fruit for breakfast today so I am a little peckish, I am going to try and stay away from bread, apart from the bread I make myself.’
  • ‘If I feel peckish while knitting I decide to knit two more rows and if I'm still hungry then I'll go and get something to eat.’
  • ‘I was feeling distinctly peckish when the stuff was safely loaded in the car, so we strolled back into the store and into the coffee shop.’
  • ‘If you're feeling peckish, quality rather than quantity is the word.’
  • ‘Come lunch time today I found myself feeling really rather peckish but didn't fancy anything cooked.’
  • ‘What arrived was enough to feed a small and starving army, let alone two slightly peckish punters out for a quiet bite to eat.’
  • ‘Although my sole intention and natural instinct was to get my date drunk, we were feeling rather peckish.’
  • ‘Feeling peckish he ordered room service, locking the dog in the bathroom when the waiter arrived.’
  • ‘And you'd better be careful, he might be feeling a bit peckish.’
  • ‘But I'd been up for seven hours and I was feeling a little peckish.’
  • ‘I was obviously feeling a little peckish when I compiled it.’
  • ‘And if you are feeling peckish, they have an excellent nourishing lunch menu with soup, and really fresh sandwiches.’
  • ‘If you are mildly peckish after lunch, it's stupid.’
  • ‘I wouldn't even be able to eat a bacon sandwich if I got peckish.’
  • ‘Certainly, I answered, feeling by this point a bit peckish.’

  Synonyms

  irritable, irascible, fractious, fretful, cross, petulant, pettish, crabbed, crabby, crotchety, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, disagreeable, miserable, morose, peppery, on edge, edgy, impatient, complaining, querulous