Now if you get to feeling peckish and can think of something, I mean anything you want to eat, you call me and I’ll go get it and bring it to you.
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We leave the leftovers out in the evenings in case we get peckish before bed. Then if they’re not eat we put them away.
I heard the girls singing with Granny ,I’m sorry she didn’t feel up to singing much but I enjoyed it. thank you for doing that .
Never heard peckish. But when I was a kid in the 40’s & 50’s the word “peaked”, (two syllables) meant a person was looking sickly. That was at Ivy Log.
Tipper, I don’t think you got the point across. Peckish (according to the dictionary even) means hungry. We use it when a person is recovering from an issue that made them not want to eat. Being peckish is an indicator that the issue is being resolved. Am I wrong?
Ed-that’s what we use if for too 🙂
In the category of Did You Know? “Peckish” comes straight from the English ancestors. They still use it today in Great Britain. We’ve always used it in our family. One day I heard that word come out of the mouth of a Brit who was my neighbor. We both laughed when we found we meant the exact same thing!
I guess I always equated peckish with peaked/peeked when in fact they are almost opposite. It’s like they are separated by a disease.
I love reading your posts and watching your videos each day. Your family is so inspiring. And enjoy all the knowledge, as well as how down-to-earth you all are. What are the mixing bowls you use with the speckles and also your cutting board with red handles and red utensils. Where did you get them from?
My husband and I both enjoy your videos. Sure wish there were more people posting about everyday life and being Christian. Keep up the wonderful work.
Terry, so glad you enjoy what we do! Thank you 🙂 The bowls are Texas Ware. They were gifts. You can sometimes find them on Etsy and EBay. Also at thrift stores and yard sales.
Growing up I heard people say that someone looked peaked (2 syllables) when they looked unwell.
I have heard peckish all my life. Peekeed/peakeed means the a person has basically the same symptoms as a peckish looking person (pale, wea-eyed , no energy, etc).
I know that ‘nothing tempts me’ feeling and it always troubles me. It strikes me as somewhat related to being ungrateful, especially when we have such an abundance of choices. Yet it happens and is a mystery why when we are not sick. We two increasingly have that problem of just not knowing anything in particular we want. I wish I had a natural solution and I think I have two – work or exercise. Even they seem less effective than they used to be.
Gaylia, I have lived here at the same place all of my life, I also remember the time when the neighbors would “pitch in” when any of their neighbors were peckish. Many of the area natives still live, talk and practice many of the old ways, not true for the newcomers, most of them won’t speak or even wave ( throw their hand up) when or if they pass by on these back roads or you are outside in your yard. I think some even go as far as turning their head.
Does anyone know the origin ofe the phrase, “played the wild”? My elders used that as an exclamation when, for example, one of us had knocked over a nice vase or broken a window with a baseball. I said it to myself once when I unintentionally set a grass fire while smoking rabbit tobacco, which I had learned about from some older boys.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone use the word peckish. We always say puny. Thanks for sharing. I learned a new word today.
I think Jim Casada was the first writer or speaker to lay peckish on me.
Peckish was a word I grew up hearing, but it had a dual meaning – sometimes it was for when one was not feeling well, or ‘off their feed,’ and also when one was fussy about what they ate – like a bird pecking through mixed seed – picking out their favorite. My husband used the word often when he was not ‘up to par.’ Keeping Granny and you y’all in prayer.
Love that word peckish. I’m just sitting here trying to remember how I know that word. I dont say it. I dont remember anyone in my family saying it. I don’t even remember ever reading it. Yet somehow it is familiar and comforting to me. Isn’t that strange how that works. Up until now I would have said I was feeling puny if I didnt feel good. But I’m going to add peckish to my vocabulary.
Precious and few are the words I have heard and read all my life that I didn’t know the meaning of. Now I know what peckish means (but spellcheck still don’t). [right click] [add to dictionary] now it does!
I have never heard that word used to describe being hungry. If Granny gets feeling peckish and can think of anything she wants to eat, just let me know, and I will get it to her some way.
In March my wife and I both had Covid. Not only neighbors but folks from a former church brought food for us. Some drove more than 40 miles round trip to get it and deliver it to us. They either set it on the porch or hung it on a post and got back in their car, honked the horn and waited for us to open the door so they could wave and leave. They wanted to help but didn’t want to get near us. We ate much better that couple of weeks than normal. I didn’t want to tell anyone we were feeling better. We take food, make pharmacy runs, mow yards, pray for folks and do whatever else they need.
I have heard that phrase so many times! Not exactly to the word, but close.
My Nana always says that. I was a sickly child, and she was always ready to make me anything I thought sounded good. Things she would make me are still among the most comforting foods to me today.
Richard
Come to think of it, I am feeling a might peckish this morning.
I have heard that term all my life and I remember when the response was as you stated in your sentence using the word…..but today, where I live I can tell people (family and friends) that I am feeling so peckish I dont even have the energy to make anything to eat and not one person comes or offers to come to my rescue….that is one reason I love your blog and your videos so much, you show the old ways and live by them, you share the old words and phrases and you still talk that way — people can talk down about Appalachian people all they want but if the country lived and acted like Appalachian people this country would be a better place. Praying for comfort for Granny and strength for you all…much love to you and your family.