peckish

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adjective

(BrE, informal) slightly hungry: Is there anything to eat? I'm feeling a bit peckish.

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

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peckishEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus peckishEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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peasant peasantry pease pudding peashooter peat pebble pebble-dash pebbly pecan peccadillo peck

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