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Dictionary entry overview: What does peckish mean?

• PECKISH (adjective)
The adjective PECKISH has 2 senses:

1. somewhat hungry
2. easily irritated or annoyed

Familiarity information: PECKISH used as an adjective is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PECKISH (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Somewhat hungry

Similar:

hungry (feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food)

Domain region:

Britain; GB; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Easily irritated or annoyed

Synonyms:

pettish; tetchy; irritable; testy; techy; peevish; petulant; scratchy; cranky; peckish; nettlesome; fractious

Context examples:

an incorrigibly fractious young man / not the least nettlesome of his countrymen

Similar:

ill-natured (having an irritable and unpleasant disposition)

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