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hunger

noun
/ˈhʌŋɡə/UK/ˈhʌŋɡɚ/US

Etymology

From Middle English hunger, from Old English hungor (“hunger, desire; famine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz, *hunhruz (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *kenk- (“to burn, smart, desire, hunger, thirst”). Cognate with West Frisian honger, hûnger (“hunger”), Dutch honger (“hunger”), German Low German Hunger (“hunger”), German Hunger (“hunger”), Swedish hunger (“hunger”), Icelandic hungur (“hunger”).

  1. derived from *kenk-✻ — “to burn, smart, desire, hunger, thirst”
  2. inherited from *hungruz✻
  3. inherited from *hungr✻
  4. inherited from hungor — “hunger, desire; famine”
  5. inherited from hunger

Definitions

  1. A need or compelling desire for food.

  2. Any strong desire or need.

    • I have a hunger to win.
    • O sacred hunger of ambitious minds!
    • When gangsters bump my shit, can they feel my hunger?

  3. To be in need of food.

    • Therefore if thine enemie hunger, feed him: if he thirst, giue him drink. For in so doing thou shalt heape coales of fire on his head.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To have a desire (for)

      To have a desire (for); to long; to yearn.

      • I hungered for your love.
      • Blessed are they which doe hunger and thirst after righteousnesse: for they shall be filled.
      • In our lives we hunger for those we cannot touch.

    2. To make hungry

      To make hungry; to famish.

The neighborhood

Derived

air hunger, anti-hunger, antihunger, enhunger, father hunger, hanger, hungerbitten, hungerer, hungerful, hunger is a good sauce, hunger is the best pickle, hunger is the best sauce, hunger is the best seasoning, hunger is the best spice, hunger knock, hungerless, hungerly, hunger moon, hunger-pain, hunger pain, hunger pang, hunger sauce, hungersome, hunger stone, hunger strike, hungry, ravenous hunger, sex-hunger, shell hunger, skin hunger, ahungered, anhungered, forhungered

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at hunger. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at hunger. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at hunger

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA