peckish

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adjective

1. somewhat hungry
• Similar to:
hungry
• Regions:
United Kingdom, UK, U.K., Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Great Britain
2. easily irritated or annoyed
- an incorrigibly fractious young man
- not the least nettlesome of his countrymen
• Syn:
cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish,
pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy, tetchy, techy
• Similar to:
ill-natured
• Derivationally related forms:
tetchiness (for: tetchy), testiness (for: testy), petulance (for: petulant), pettishness (for: pettish), peevishness (for: peevish), irritability (for: irritable), fractiousness (for: fractious), crank (for: cranky), crankiness (for: cranky)