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hungerly

adv

Etymology

From hunger + -ly.

  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
  6. suffixed as hungerly — “hunger + ly”

Definitions

  1. Hungrily.

    • Croesus passing alongst the citie of Sardis found certaine thickets, wherein were great store of snakes and serpents, on which his horses fed very hungerly, which thing, as Herodotus saith, was an ill-boding prodigy unto his affaires.

  2. Wanting food

    Wanting food; starved.

    • his beard grew thin and hungerly

The neighborhood

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