peckish

peckish

adjective, chiefly British

Definition of PECKISH

feeling a desire or need for food <I think I'll have a snack before we go, as I'm feeling a bit peckish>

Synonyms empty, famished, peckish [chiefly British], starved, starving

Related Words rapacious, ravenous, voracious, wolfish; malnourished, underfed, undernourished; gluttonous, gormandizing, greedy, hoggish, insatiable, piggish, piggy

Near Antonyms engorged, glutted, gorged, overfed, overfull, overstuffed, replete, stuffed, surfeited

Antonyms full, sated, satiate, satiated, satisfied