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peckish
[pek-ish] 
| Main Entry: |
starving/starved
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deprived of food |
| Synonyms: | could eat a horse, craving, dehydrated, drawn, dying, emaciated, empty, faint, famished, haggard, hungering, hungry, malnourished, peaked, peckish, perishing, pinched, ravenous, skinny, thin, underfed, undernourished, weakened |
| Antonyms: | fed, full, satisfied |
| Main Entry: | short-tempered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | quick to anger |
| Synonyms: | cantankerous, crabby, cranky, crotchety, fiery, grouchy, hot-blooded, hot-tempered, ill-tempered, impatient, irascible, irritable, peckish, quick-tempered, short-fused, snappish, snappy, temperamental, testy, touchy, volatile, volatile |
| Antonyms: | calm, easy-going, placid |
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