# Cuppish/Peckish

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cuppish-peckish/1030150>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 17, 2026, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cuppish-peckish/1030150 "2026-05-17T16:47:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2026, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cuppish-peckish/1030150/1 "2026-05-17T16:47:06Z")

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One can be peckish if hungry.

Cupper-cup of tea

Cuppa-cup of coffee

In your cups-drunk

Why can’t I be cuppish if I’m thirsty.

Lemme see how peckish works with the other suffixes.

_Peckish-_

Pecker-hmm 🤔

Pecka-double hmm 🤔 🤔

In your pecks- well, that sounds violent.

Just cannot be done.

My bad.

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**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2026, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cuppish-peckish/1030150/2 "2026-05-17T16:57:22Z")

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You peck at your food, like a bird. You don’t cup at your drink. I think “animal taking small drinks” would be lapping, but “lappish” is terrible. Maybe sippish?

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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2026, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cuppish-peckish/1030150/3 "2026-05-17T17:25:37Z")

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You drink like me it’s more “Drippish”

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**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2026, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cuppish-peckish/1030150/4 "2026-05-17T17:40:14Z")

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Don’t the cool kids say sitient, or something?

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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2026, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cuppish-peckish/1030150/5 "2026-05-17T18:35:35Z")

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Never heard that word. 🤨

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**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2026, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cuppish-peckish/1030150/6 "2026-05-17T21:50:09Z")

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> [@DPRK](#):
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> Don’t the cool kids say sitient, or something?

Now considered obsolete, with its last known usage around the 1870s