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Peckish vs Starving - What's the difference?

peckish | starving |

As an adjective peckish

is mildly hungry.

As a verb starving is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun starving is

starvation.

peckish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (colloquial) mildly hungry1860. John Camden Hotten. A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words page 188.
  • (colloquial) irritable; crotchety
  • (colloquial) Of or pertaining to Peckham, a place in Southwark London.
  • (colloquial) Native to Peckham.

    • References

    starving

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Globalisation is about taxes too , passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • starvation
  • * 1868 , Margaret Carrington, Ab-Sa-Ra-Ka, Land of Massacre