All holiday at Peckham.—i.e. no appetite, not peckish; a pun on the word peck, as going to Bedfordshire is a pun on the word bed.
Going to Peckham. Going to dinner.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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