| 单词 | peckish |
| 释义 | peckish (once / 71633 pages) 1adj 2adj Find yourself craving Doritos or a chunk of cheese, then you can say you're peckish. If you're peckish, you're a tad hungry (not starving, but hungry enough to poke around the kitchen cabinets). While the informal word peckish is more common in the UK, most people in North America will know what you mean if you say, "I'm feeling a little peckish — should we make some popcorn?" Some people wake up in the morning feeling peckish, while others don't feel like eating for a few hours. Peckish comes from the verb peck, which a bird does when it bites with its beak — it basically means "hungry enough to peck at some food." WORD FAMILYpeckish: peckishly USAGE EXAMPLESFeeling peckish after the hike, we stopped by two places that were, I was assured by my companions, quintessentially Utah. New York Times(Sep 15, 2016) Or perhaps it will be a giant gummy bear on the plastic buffet table, its ears nibbled away by peckish partygoers? The Verge(Jul 04, 2016) She scrunched her face into a scowl and added, “And I’m becoming quite peckish!”—which made us all laugh harder. Ransom Riggs, Hollow City(2014) 1 adj somewhat hungry 2Syn hungry feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food adj easily irritated or annoyed Syn cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy ill-natured having an irritable and unpleasant disposition |
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