peckish
adjective
1. somewhat hungry: by noon we were feeling a bit peckish.
2. rather irritable: he's always a bit peckish after his nap.
bonus word of the day
puckish
adjective
mischievous; impish.
just to illustrate to my MS spellcheck that no, i did NOT want to use the word 'puckish' when trying to tell my colleague that i was hungry.
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