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1. peckish

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Usually means: Feeling slightly hungry or nibbly.
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  1. peckish: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. peckish: Merriam-Webster
  3. peckish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. peckish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. peckish: Collins English Dictionary
  6. peckish: Vocabulary.com
  7. peckish: Wordnik
  8. peckish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. peckish: Wiktionary
  10. peckish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. peckish: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Peckish, peckish: Dictionary.com
  13. peckish: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Peckish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. peckish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. peckish: Rhymezone
  17. peckish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. PECKISH: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  19. peckish: FreeDictionary.org
  20. peckish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. peckish: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. peckish: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. peckish: Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. peckish: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. peckish: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. peckish: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  (colloquial, British) mildly hungry
▸ adjective:  (colloquial) irritable; crotchety

Similar:
hungry, tetchy, testy, peevish, pettish, irritable, cranky, petulant, ill-natured, nettlesome, more...

Opposite:
full, satiated, satisfied, not hungry

Types:
ravenous, starving, famished, ravening, more...

Colors:
    peach,     apricot,     honey,     almond,     caramel, more...
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Similar:
hungry, tetchy, testy, peevish, pettish, irritable, cranky, petulant, ill-natured, nettlesome, more...

Opposite:
full, satiated, satisfied, not hungry

Types:
ravenous, starving, famished, ravening, more...

Colors:
    peach,     apricot,     honey,     almond,     caramel, more...



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