Peckish in a sentence as an adjective

I get peckish again around 4-5pm though, so watch out!

If you're feeling peckish and your mind is filled with steak, eat steak. If it's filled with pasta, eat pasta.

Later, she's feeling a bit peckish, so she has some cake. She loves it, and wants the next batch to be made just like it.

Cats seem to catch mice for fun, only eating one after playing with it, and if they're feeling peckish.

> I had schizophrenia and the doctors told me I was peckish. They didn’t listen to me.

I had schizophrenia and the doctors told me I was peckish. They didn’t listen to me.

I used to get peckish in the mid-morning, now I don't get hungry until lunchtime. Not being hungry helps me concentrate.

It's good for facts, skip all the "We found ourselves peckish on a recent gloomy Thursday afternoon&;&." garbage.

Especially the habit of panicking when peckish. That said, this question set isn't wrong.

Brain learns there are other foods that satiate hunger, and whenever it feels peckish it will make you think of them instead. So the good news is that the struggle is temporary.

If I'm a little peckish and I realise I haven't had enough water, just drinking half a glass usually staves off the feeling of hunger.

Babies go from slightly peckish to screaming their head off hungry in a couple of minutes, and it takes 5 minutes to warm a bottle. Having a "she's gonna need feeding soon alarm" would be really handy.

Now I do get peckish some days, but it’s not very problematic. I’m on track to achieve my ideal weight in the next 3-4 months, in the past having such a long term goal didn’t work for me, seeing results from week 2 definitely helped me keep motivated.

Let's just say that it took a while before I made the connection from "wow, we have most of our fights in the car" to two things: my getting annoyed with other drivers and misplacing my aggression, and her getting peckish. As for shirts, it's the same sort of choice as hiring a housekeeper.

Like, it's okay to feel peckish in the afternoon— it's not a problem that needs to be solved by having a snack, it's just a sign that I'm going to be good and hungry come dinner time. Same in the evening: I don't need to go to bed stuffed, I can just make sure to eat a solid dinner, and then plan on eating well at breakfast in the morning.

You're an atheist, so don't want to celebrate the sacrificial death of Jesus, but you are a bit peckish at 10am -- is it OK for you to have a light snack? In that instance I'd say no -- the bread and wine are imbued with special religious significance, and so it's more respectful to abstain, even if you don't think there's anything special about them.

Peckish definitions

adjective

somewhat hungry

adjective

easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"