Feel peckish meaning in English

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Definition

to feel peckish: to be slightly hungry, to want to eat idiom

Examples

  • "I've got a few hours to kill and I'm starting to feel a bit peckish."
  • "If you're feeling a little bit peckish, I also have some lobster tails and some caviar in the kitchen."
Exercise 1
Choose all the TRUE statements from the list below.

Be careful, there may be more than one correct choice!
Choose all the TRUE statements from the list below.

Be careful, there may be more than one correct choice!
When asked if he can meet Sam right now, Bruno replies that he is "booked solid for the rest of the day". To be "booked solid" is to be very busy, or to have many scheduled appointments.
When asked if he wants to meet Sam right away to eat something, Bruno declines, saying that he is busy all day, then adding "It's also 9 o'clock in the morning". Sam confirms this by saying, "True, true".
Bruno is actually calling to schedule an appointment with Sam, not to cancel a previous one.
Sam asks Bruno to meet him right away, saying that he is starting to "feel a bit peckish". "Peckish" is a primarily British term which means "hungry", although in another context it can mean irritated or angry.
This is incorrect. Sam wants to meet Bruno right away, and not on Thursday as Bruno proposes. This indicates that Sam is available not just on Thursday afternoon. It is Bruno who is busy until Thursday afternoon. Sam eventually accepts Bruno's offer to meet him on Thursday.

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