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List of antonyms from "pecker" to antonyms from "pedantry"
Discover our 143 antonyms available for the terms "peculiarity, pedagogery, pedaling, peckish, peculiar object, pedal" and many more. Click on one of the words below and go directly to the antonyms associated with it.
- Pecker (9 antonyms)
- Peckers (1 antonym)
- Peckest (8 antonyms)
- Peckish (14 antonyms)
- Pecksniffery (8 antonyms)
- Peculate (1 antonym)
- Peculation (9 antonyms)
- Peculiar (18 antonyms)
- Peculiar object (7 antonyms)
- Peculiarities (3 antonyms)
- Peculiarity (3 antonyms)
- Peculiarize (2 antonyms)
- Pecunious (9 antonyms)
- Pedagogery (3 antonyms)
- Pedagogics (7 antonyms)
- Pedagogue (2 antonyms)
- Pedagogy (7 antonyms)
- Pedal (5 antonyms)
- Pedaled (5 antonyms)
- Pedaling (5 antonyms)
- Pedalled (5 antonyms)
- Pedalling (5 antonyms)
- Pedantic (4 antonyms)
- Pedantry (3 antonyms)
Definition of the day : « peckish »
- As in starving/starved : adj deprived of food
- As in starving : adj deprived
- As in short-tempered : adj quick to anger
- That's a sign that you're so peckish you could swallow anything.
- Extract from : « The Prophet of Berkeley Square » by Robert Hichens
- Why, of course, this is their breakfast-time, and the sight of us has made them peckish.
- Extract from : « The Ocean Cat's Paw » by George Manville Fenn
- We're not likely to be in time for table d'hte—not that I'm peckish.
- Extract from : « The Travelling Companions » by F. Anstey
- If youre going up in the air, Captain, youll be peckish, the man said.
- Extract from : « Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound » by Alice B. Emerson
- And I am as peckish as I can be, said the boy, a rapid thought flashing through his mind.
- Extract from : « A Very Naughty Girl » by L. T. Meade
- The luncheon gong will go in a minute or two, and this keen air makes one peckish—Eh, what?
- Extract from : « The Silent Barrier » by Louis Tracy
- Peckish is though more likely to be derived from the action of birds when eating, as all slang has its origin in metaphor.
- Extract from : « The Slang Dictionary » by John Camden Hotten
- If I felt sort of peckish they let me suck a little glass thermometer, but there is not much nourishment really in thermometers.
- Extract from : « "Speaking of Operations--" » by Irvin S. Cobb
- "I'm peckish again," he said, climbing to the deck, and wiping the perspiration from his forehead with a piece of oily waste.
- Extract from : « Under the Star-Spangled Banner » by F. S. Brereton
- Well, now I'm off home, for its peckish work mowing on an empty belly, and the mother'll be looking out for me.
- Extract from : « Austin and His Friends » by Frederic H. Balfour