Peck At (Verb)
Meaning
Eat like a bird; "The anorexic girl just picks at her food".
Classification
Verbs of eating and drinking.
Examples
- The anorexic girl just pecks at her food, showing a complete lack of interest in eating.
- Her eating disorder has caused her to peck at her meals for months now.
- After a few bites, she began to peck at the rest of her dinner as if uninterested.
- Watching her peck at her food was an indication of her declining health.
- As the days went by, her habit of pecking at meals only worsened.