peakish
- a word derived from peak.
Example Sentences
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She bore an unhappy infant in her arms, whose melancholy peakish face, not twelve-months old, looked already conscious of prevailing misery.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various
I will see, if any be ready here at home, Or whether Jacob have any, that peakish mome.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Hazlitt, William Carew
The landlady and her daughter thought he was rather peakish, but he had not complained.
From Tommy and Grizel by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
