different between peckish vs starving

peckish

English

Etymology

peck (verb) +? -ish. From late 18th century.

Pronunciation

Adjective

peckish (comparative more peckish, superlative most peckish)

  1. (colloquial) mildly hungry
  2. (colloquial) irritable; crotchety

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starving

English

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /?st??v??/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?st??v??/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)v??

Verb

starving

  1. present participle of starve

Noun

starving (plural starvings)

  1. starvation
    • 1868, Margaret Carrington, Ab-Sa-Ra-Ka, Land of Massacre
      [] surely there have been atrocities which demanded of the white man the punishment of the evil-doer; but far more have been the starvings and the flights and the extinguishments which have visited the Indian, for the offence of living []

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