"I feel hungry" "I am feeling hungry"

[Rachel Adams]

Hello.
This sentence is mine. If with "look", "ache", "feel" it's not wrong to use the progressive then in this sentence I can use both forms as well. Am I right?
"I feel hungry. Is there anything to eat?" Or "I am feeling hungry".

 

[PeterCW]

In colloquial BrE I would use either.

 

[emsr2d2]

Either one is OK, but the vast majority of native English speakers would just say "I'm hungry".

 

[Tdol]

To heighten the moment, I'd use I'm starving.

 

[Tortuga]

I am not a teacher.

They are both correct sentences.
The second sentence would likely be used like this
"I am feeling hungry. Let's get something to eat."

 

[probus]

In colloquial BrE I would use either.

Same here in AmE.

 

[emsr2d2]

My family uses the rather silly "I'm ravishing" - we all know that what we mean is "I'm ravenous!"

 

[jutfrank]

I grew up in a family that used a lot of cockney rhyming slang. As a kid, I might have said: "I'm Hank."

Warning to learners and non-Brits: Do not try this at home!

 

[emsr2d2]

I grew up in a family that used a lot of cockney rhyming slang. As a kid, I might have said: "I'm Hank."

Warning to learners and non-Brits: Do not try this at home!

My grandmother was a true Cockney but I don't think she used it. That's probably because she was born in about 1923, Hank Marvin wasn't born till 1941 and I think it was a good few decades until his name became rhyming slang.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Either one is OK, but the vast majority of native English speakers would just say "I'm hungry".

You beat me to it.

 

[jutfrank]

My grandmother was a true Cockney but I don't think she used it. That's probably because she was born in about 1923, Hank Marvin wasn't born till 1941 and I think it was a good few decades until his name became rhyming slang.

I understand that some people used to use Lee Marvin (born 1924), but I've never heard it. In any case, Hank is funnier.

 

[GoesStation]

Either one is OK, but the vast majority of native English speakers would just say "I'm hungry".

In my region, people often say they're feeling a might/bit peckish when their appetite is just developing.

 

[emsr2d2]

We use "[a bit] peckish" in BrE too.

 

[probus]

In my region, people often say they're feeling a might/bit peckish when their appetite is just developing.

We say that in Canada too. Your spelling is interesting. I'd have written "a mite peckish" as in widow's mite. But I think you are right: most people nowadays don't know the word mite and would write a might peckish.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

We use "[a bit] peckish" in BrE too.

I think we picked it up from you.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

We say that in Canada too. Your spelling is interesting. I'd have written "a mite peckish" as in widow's mite. But I think you are right: most people nowadays don't know the word mite and would write a might peckish.

Hm. I wouldn't have thought of spelling it might.

 

[probus]

On a humorous note, when I lived in England long ago people would say "Keep your pecker up." They meant "Keep your chin up" or 'Be cheerful", but of course it would never work in AmE. ;-)

 

[jutfrank]

... but of course it would never work in AmE. ;-)

Well, I can think of some circumstances. ;-)

 

[Tdol]

On a humorous note, when I lived in England long ago people would say "Keep your pecker up." They meant "Keep your chin up" or 'Be cheerful", but of course it would never work in AmE. ;-)

You will still hear it.