peckish

feeling a desire or need for food

Heard in 9 songs (4.9M+ combined views) — most famously in "British Bombs" by Declan McKenna.

Updated October 1, 2026

Songs Featuring “peckish”

Declan McKenna - British Bombs

Time: 2:21

Does it matter in the wreckage what should you say?

I found myself a little peckish last Tuesday

This is what you signed up for, no questions

Declan McKenna - British Bombs

Amyl and the Sniffers - '70s Street Munchies

Time: 0:54

But you wish you knew me better

70's Street Munchies, I'm heading round the south feeling peckish peckish

70's Street Munchies, I'm going on the train feeling fresh as fresh as

Amyl and the Sniffers - '70s Street Munchies

J Hus - Leave Me

Time: 0:51

I'm with a surgeon and a chemist

Steak and lettuce, when we're peckish for the day that I perish

Put me in Chanel, Hermes as well

J Hus - Leave Me

Aesop Rock - Rabies

Time: 1:31

How do you identify?

New with the matutinal or peckish with the vespertine

Me, I'm pretty useless

Aesop Rock - Rabies

Shaggy - Forgive Them Father

Time: 2:02

Can't use me tongue and lick out me Pyrex dish

As me sit down and a wish me mouth start get peckish

Have fi eat me dry bread and drink the water well quick

Shaggy - Forgive Them Father

Monty Python - Cheese Shop

Time: 0:11

Skimming through Rogue Herrys by Hugh Walpole

And I suddenly came over all peckish

Peckish, sir?

Monty Python - Cheese Shop

Ghetts - Menace

Time: 0:57

Been doing this before bound for bound perished

When I was hungry you weren't even peckish

I was letting off bullets in the Chemist

Ghetts - Menace

elliotly - he's a cannibal!

Time: 1:35

It's as great as it appears

And when he gets a little peckish

Some might say I've got a death wish

elliotly - he's a cannibal!

Greaseball - I Think I Do

Time: 0:36

I'm so sensitive and off

I'm so jealous, I'm so peckish, I'm just waiting to go

Got my name in the game, now I do shows

Greaseball - I Think I Do