Wordie: Peckish: Comments

Comment by slumry, about 1 year ago

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:59:30 +0000

I love that movie too. Time for me to watch it again.

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:56:18 +0000

I knew it!! I just watched that again a couple days ago. One of my favorite movies. The phrase must have still been bouncing around in my subconscious. ;-)

Comment by arby, about 1 year ago

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:54:42 +0000

We are both right - and I was totally thinking of that same phrase. c.f O Brother, Where Art Thou?:

Big Dan Teague: "Thank you boys for throwin' in that fricassee. I'm a man of large appetite, and even with lunch under my belt, I was feelin' a mite peckish."

Comment by slumry, about 1 year ago

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:36:17 +0000

FWIW--American Heritage says "chiefly British"

Comment by slumry, about 1 year ago

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:34:55 +0000

I remember hearing that there are, or recently were, isolated pockets of the south where near-Elizabethan English was still spoken. You could both be right.

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:32:59 +0000

That comes to mind. I'm just speculating here, but the phrase "feelin' a mite peckish" also seems rather American (deep south) to me.

Comment by arby, about 1 year ago

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:30:47 +0000

For some reason I feel like this is a British thing. What do you all think?

Comment by slumry, about 1 year ago

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:03:18 +0000

When you are past the point of peckishness, you may be ravishing;-)

Comment by andrew.simone, about 1 year ago

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:52:12 +0000

When I am feeling famished I will often say I am past the point of peckishness