peckish

peckish

A little bit hungry; desiring only small amounts of food. I'm really just peckish, so some cheese and crackers will do me fine. We were all a little peckish, so we stopped for a quick snack.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

peckish

mod. hungry. I’m just a little peckish right now. I need a bite to eat.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • a little bit
  • little bit
  • financially embarrassed
  • in a little bit
  • think little of
  • think little of (someone or something)
  • with (one's) eyes closed
  • with your eyes shut
  • with your eyes shut/closed
  • standing on (one's) head
References in periodicals archive
10.30pm: After last main course has gone, and all check-backs performed and received, I will nowadays, if I am at all peckish - which is usually the case - I will either order something to eat at 60 or order a take away form Host or the Quarter and head home.
But when he told his assistants that he was feeling rather peckish, they rushed back into Liverpool to his favourite restaurant Sapporo Teppanyaki.
FEELING peckish? Then pick up a new Top Banana flavoured Penguin biscuit.
PECKISH pupils at a Nuneaton school are encouraging each other to join the "crunch bunch" and help get books for their school.
And no wonder they were a bit peckish after doing swimwear pics at the Culloden Hotel and a fashion shoot at The Outlet outside Banbridge over the weekend.
Although, if the owners are feeling peckish, I should point out there's also a people's menu!
Now all this talk of food's gone and made me peckish.
The card costs 29 euros for adults and 19 euros for children for 24 hours, www.copenhagencard.com Feeling peckish?
PECKISH prisoners are smuggling in takeaway food and booze by TRACTOR.
If you're feeling particularly peckish then why not try the full monty, the Mega Breakfast Sub which includes sausage, bacon, egg and cheese.
They have 24DJs over 12 hours plus a barbecue if you get peckish. Enjoy house, electro and breaks from Dash, Steve Brown, DJ Trix, Buddha Andy Currie and lots more...and entry is free!
For the Nationwide Conference North boys must have felt a little peckish on their way to Farsley Celtic on Easter Monday and decided to drop in at the McDonald's at Silverlink in Wallsend.
However in this pose it appears that he was a bit peckish when the paper boy called!''
Peckish rail passengers can now buy a portion of chips while they wait at the platform, according to manufacturer McCain.
NEXT time I feel peckish, I'll remember the Big Mac which cost me PS1,000 the other night.