What's the difference between peckish and ravenous?

Peckish


Definition:

  • (a.) Inclined to eat; hungry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Feeling peckish, I ride to the lake’s official and slightly gaudy Strandbad, which is free to get in and has several snack stalls.
  • (2) Richard Hurst (@richardhursty) I ate three of Howard's hash cakes and still felt peckish.
  • (3) The fivers have also had to pass health and safety tests, just in case they should fall into the paws of peckish toddlers and pets.
  • (4) If you get peckish afterwards, go through to the Thai restaurant.
  • (5) But I like the more day-to-day overstatement – like saying you're starving when really you're just peckish.

Ravenous


Definition:

  • (a.) Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture.
  • (a.) Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Recent winners such as the Ravens, Giants, Packers and Steelers typically stayed away from free agents, and fans are catching on.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Baltimore Ravens NFL player Eugene Monroe.
  • (3) Suddenly the game seemed to be slipping away from the Ravens, matters going from bad to worse as Ray Rice fumbled at the Baltimore 24.
  • (4) Despite a cramping, high-concept production set in a psychiatric ward, Richardson gave us a Richard resembling a monstrous child whose ravening will had yet to be curbed by social custom.
  • (5) Sea raven AFP cDNA clones were isolated from a liver cDNA library using a synthetic oligonucleotide, and the identity of one of the clones, C2-1, was confirmed by hybridization selection and cell-free translation.
  • (6) We just don’t believe the argument or the rationale is strong enough to transcend what has been around for thousands of years.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jarica Jordan (right), Raven Knight (center) and a friend in downtown Fargo during the gay pride parade.
  • (7) Five feet of water filled his kitchen and downstairs in the building that also houses his architectural practice, Red Raven Design.
  • (8) The findings suggest that loss of intellectual capacity on the Raven's Matrices can be attributed to age.
  • (9) In the email Raven says she and her supporters have raised the £6,000 needed to launch phase one of the Spare Rib website in May but that an additional £20,000 is required to launch a bimonthly print magazine this autumn.
  • (10) Ravens 7 - 49ers 0, 10:36 1st quarter A big 3rd & 4 sees Flacco in the shotgon, then hitting Boldin to opening up the scoring in Super Bowl XLVII!
  • (11) This is the equivalent of the apes leaving the Tower of London, or the ravens quitting Gibraltar, or the other way round.
  • (12) Dr. Clara Raven, Deputy Medical Examiner of Wayne County testified before the committee because of her experience in dealing with many tragic deaths due to criminal abortions and child abuse and neglect due to unwanted pregnancy.
  • (13) Then Rice with a short run, an incomplete pass to Boldin and a little pass to Rice as the Ravens can't pick up a second first down on this drive and kick it away into the end zone.
  • (14) 3.31am GMT Ravens 34 - 49ers 29, 2:00 of 4th Quarter Warning, this Super Bowl has two minutes left!
  • (15) As mentioned, the Ravens were able to defeat the Broncos last year in overtime with a 47 yard field goal by Tucker.
  • (16) Alicia Keys handles the song, which was written near the shores of the Chesapeake Bay around the Baltimore Harbor, quite close to where the Ravens play their home games - coincidence?
  • (17) Speed of reaction (as defined by the reciprocal of reaction time (RT), movement time (MT) and total response time (TRT] and accuracy of response (as represented by the sum of errors in selecting the correct response key) were investigated comparatively as a function of side of lesion and of performance on Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices (PM47).
  • (18) Solution acceptance, as recorded for the different ravens on each test, was the percentage of preference shown for a test solution over water (comparison solution).
  • (19) At which point restraint becomes as powerful as the Seeds' ravenous beer-hall bluster; a ten-minute Stagger Lee is a masterclass in tension and drama, Cave balancing precariously on the crowd barrier with audience members holding him up by the boot-heel as he leans out to sing his tale of a deviant killer directly into the eyes of a hypnotised girl in white hoisted on someone's shoulders.
  • (20) @lengeldavid or by email at david.lengel.freelance@guardiannews.com Paolo's coverage of the exhausted Ravens and Broncos is over here.

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