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peck·ish

   [pek-ish]
adjective Chiefly British Informal.
1.
somewhat hungry: By noon we were feeling a bit peckish.
2.
rather irritable: He's always a bit peckish after his nap.
Origin:
1775–85; peck2 + -ish1
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Peckish is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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peckish (ˈpɛkɪʃ)
 
—adj
informal chiefly (Brit) feeling slightly hungry; having an appetite
 
[C18: from peck²]

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peckish
"disposed to peck, somewhat hungry," 1785, from peck (v.).
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peckish definition


  1. mod.
    hungry. : I'm just a little peckish right now. I need a bite to eat.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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