TO HAVE (or SPEND) A HOLIDAY AT PECKHAM, verb. phr. (old).—To have nothing to eat. GOING TO PECKHAM = going to dinner.—HALLIWELL (1847).
1823. BADCOCK (‘Jon Bee’), Dictionary of the Turf, etc., s.v. PECKHAM … ‘No PECKHAM for Ben, he’s been to Clapham,’ i.e., is indisposed, in a certain way.
