My British friends - which definition of 'peckish' do you normally use?

Not British.

I use it interchangeably with the popular portmanteau “hangry”.

Slightly hungry. grassing like a cow.

Canajun, not Brit , here. We use peckish to mean we could eat something but we’re not ravenous.

I use it they way I first heard in, when John Goodman played Babe Ruth. He said he was feeling a might “peckish.”

However, it also feels like cranky, too. I think more cranky than hungry. Maybe you’re cranky because you’re hungry.

A bit hungry. I’ve never heard anyone use it to suggest they’re cranky.

^^ I’m with her. As a former wife of a Brit, I’ve only heard it to mean hungry.

Well we’re not friends but i’m English (get right outta fuckin town) so…
Peckish has only one meaning & that is to say you’re feeling, not hungry, but in need of a little snack, fill a little hole. Irritable or in a one means you are narcked or miffed or even chewed.

Haha, reminds me of the song from the old tv ad for a certain brand of chocolate covered biscuit
“When you feel a little p-peckish, p-p-p-p-pick up a Penguin”

I might be guilty of picking up more than a few Penguins of an afternoon

I love Penguins (apart from @janbb) @ucme. They’re a bit like our Tim Tams. They are certainly a very good solution when feeling a tad peckish.

They are delicious @Earthbound_Misfit or at least they were, I hardly eat chocolate anymore.
It’s weird though how all snack treats got way smaller over the years, creme eggs are so bloody tiny compared to when I was a kid, my hands are obviously bigger but still

I just read what I wrote. I don’t mean I don’t love our wonderful penguin. I meant I love them as well as our penguin. @ucme, I’m not a great eater of chocolate confectionary either, but have you seen how small Mars bars are now? I remember when I was a kid they seemed huge, now it’s like ‘where the hell is the choccie bar?’ I think they have actually got smaller as a way of them making more money.

A while back someone posted a photo on FB to illustrate how tins of chocolate sweets (Roses/Quality Street etc.) had gotten smaller over the years. They placed the older tin at the bottom with each tier becoming increasing smaller as they became up to date, looked like a wedding cake with the most recent tin at the top being significantly smaller.

Never heard it used as meaning grumpy. I use it to mean slightly hungry and wanting a snack not a meal.