What is the British slang for hungry?

(Adjective) The word “famished” means that you have a desire to eat or a desire for food. It is commonly used as British slang for “hungry”. Example: Aren't you famished after the long commute we just had?

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How do you say eat in British slang?

Synonyms of 'eat' in British English
  1. consume. Andrew would consume nearly two pounds of cheese per day.
  2. swallow. Polly took a bite of the apple, chewed and swallowed it.
  3. chew.
  4. hoover (informal)
  5. scoff (slang) I scoffed the lot!
  6. devour. She devoured half an apple pie.
  7. munch.
  8. tuck into (informal)

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How do you say I'm hungry in Old English?

"Iċ hyngriġe" - "I'm hungry" (literally, "I'm hungering").

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What are English slang words for food?

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  • Grub: food.
  • Noms: food.
  • Chow: food.
  • Eats: food.
  • Munchies: snacks.
  • Nosh: snacks.
  • Grubbies: snacks.
  • Noshes: snacks.

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What is the slang term for eating a lot?

Someone who regularly eats a lot may be said to eat like a horse: He's incredibly thin and yet he eats like a horse. Meanwhile, a person who eats very little is sometimes said to eat like a bird. The kids put away three packets of cookies in one evening.

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What is slang for eating a lot of food?

  • binge.
  • devour.
  • glut.
  • gluttonize.
  • gobble.
  • gulp.
  • guzzle.
  • Hoover.

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How do you say hungry in a fancy way?

adjective
  1. starving.
  2. starved.
  3. famished.
  4. peckish.
  5. ravenous.
  6. empty.
  7. malnourished.
  8. voracious.

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What is a word for extremely hungry?

1. Ravenous, ravening, voracious suggest a greediness for food and usually intense hunger. Ravenous implies extreme hunger, or a famished condition: ravenous wild beasts.

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What do we call little hunger in English?

Peckish - to be a little hungry. This is a casual word, mostly used in British English. "There's some biscuits here if you are feeling peckish."

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How do British people call a light meal?

Some people in Britain and Australia refer to their main evening meal as "tea" rather than "dinner" or "supper", but generally, with the exception of Scotland and Northern England, "tea" refers to a light meal or a snack.

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What is the British slang for pretty girl?

1- Gorgeous This is another common way to describe an attractive female in Britain. If 2- Fit This is probably the most popular slang term in the UK for an attractive female. If you hear a guy say that a girl is “fit,” he's definitely into her and thinks she's hot.

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What do British people call meals?

The evening meal is usually called 'tea', 'dinner' or 'supper'. What is a traditional British Dinner? A typical British meal for dinner is "meat and two veg".

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What is the word for hungry and grumpy?

The word 'hangry' is a concise way to describe a common feeling. Hangry is a clever portmanteau of hungry and angry, and an adjective that describes being irritable due to hunger.

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How do you say I'm hungry in a smart way?

Other Ways to Say I'm Hungry in English
  1. I'm starving.
  2. I'm peckish (British – means, a little hungry)
  3. I could eat a horse.
  4. I'm famished.
  5. I can't explain how hungry I am.
  6. My stomach is rumbling I'm so hungry.
  7. I need to eat something quick.

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What's another word for starving and hungry?

ravenous. adjectivevery hungry; desirous. avaricious.

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What is a word for not eating?

On this page you'll find 14 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to not eat, such as: abstain, diet, famish, forbear, refrain, and starve.

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What is the word for not eating for a day?

Fasting is going for a certain length of time without eating anything.

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What is a funny term for eating?

Gobble up – English is a funny language isn't it? We wolf down, but we gobble up – and both mean the same thing: to eat fast. To gobble means to eat hungrily and hastily. This time it could be that we're being compared to a bird – a goose, heron or turkey, gobbling food down its long neck.

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What is grub slang?

slang to provide (a person) with food or (of a person) to take food. (tr) slang, mainly US to scrounge: to grub a cigarette.

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What is food in street slang?

FOOD means "Cannabis."

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Why do Brits say tea for dinner?

“High” tea

It combined snacks and a hearty meal and was usually served at about 6pm. This eventually evolved into the lower classes calling their midday meal “dinner” and their evening meal “tea”, while the upper classes called their midday meal “lunch” and referred to the evening meal as “dinner”.

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What is a British dinner lady?

noun. British a female cook or canteen worker in a school.

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Why do Brits call lunch dinner?

For some “lunch” is “dinner” and vice versa. From the Roman times to the Middle Ages everyone ate in the middle of the day, but it was called dinner and was the main meal of the day. Lunch as we know it didn't exist – not even the word.

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What is the British slang for cigarette?

Fag or FAG may refer to: FAG, a brand of the Schaeffler Group. Cigarette, in British and Australian slang. Fagging, in British public schools.

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