I have often used the word 'peckish'. usually when I am only feeling slightly hungry or feigning politeness or a bit of southern charm. But I never really stopped to wonder why. Why peckish? It makes you think of a woodpecker drilling into a tree trunk for grubs. I never would have thought that was the origin though.
First recorded use was in the year 1714. Like many words that we use, it began life as a slang word. More specifically in this case, a British criminal slang word. This is according to an answer that Jonathon Green (Slang lexicographer. Author: Green's Dictionary of Slang (2010)) posted on Quora. " It is one of the earliest of all recorded slang terms and first appears in a glossary of criminal language published in 1566."
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