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, hungry [chiefly British], starved, starvingRelated Words rapacious, ravenous, voracious, wolfish; malnourished, underfed, undernourished; gluttonous, gormandizing, greedy, hoggish, insatiable, piggish, piggyNear Antonyms engorged, glutted, gorged, overfed, overfull, overstuffed, replete, stuffed, surfeitedAntonyms full, sated, satiate, satiated, satisfied