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hungry

adj
/ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/UK/ˈhʊŋɡɹi/

Etymology

From Middle English hungry, from Old English hungriġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hungrug, from Proto-Germanic *hungrugaz (“hungry”); equivalent to hunger + -y. Cognate with West Frisian hongerich (“hungry”), Dutch hongerig (“hungry”), German hungrig (“hungry”), Swedish hungrig (“hungry”), Icelandic hungraður (“hungry”).

  1. inherited from *hungrugaz✻ — “hungry”
  2. inherited from *hungrug✻
  3. inherited from hungriġ
  4. inherited from hungry

Definitions

  1. Affected by hunger

    Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.

    • My kids go to bed hungry every night because I haven’t got much money for food.
    • He was so hungry he could eat two burgers.
    • I woke up very hungry and made some toast.

  2. Causing hunger.

    • All this gardening is hungry work.

  3. Eager

    Eager; having an avid desire or appetite for something.

    • young and hungry
    • the students are hungry to learn
    • Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Not rich or fertile

      Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.

      • a hungry soil
      • […] What is this? / Your knees to me? to your corrected son? / Then let the pebbles on the hungry beach / Fillip the stars […]

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Derived

ahungry, a hungry man is an angry man, anhungry, bloodhungry, cumhungry, drungry, go hungry, hangry, horngry, hungries, hungrify, hungrily, hungriness, hungrisome, hungry as a hog, hungry gap, hungry ghost, Hungry Ghost Festival, hungry like the wolf, hungry rice, I'm hungry, money-hungry, nonhungry, overhungry, power-hungry, stay hungry, superhungry, thungry, unhungrily, unhungry, warhungry

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hungry. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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