释义 |
hungerer|ˈhʌŋgərə(r)| [f. hunger v. + -er1.] One who suffers hunger; one who longs or craves.
1382Wyclif Isa. xxxii. 6 And voide he shal make the soule of the hungrere. 1784R. Bage Barham Downs II. 6 A hungerer after loaves and fishes. 1821Lamb Elia Ser. i. Grace before Meat, Nothing in Milton is finelier fancied than these temperate dreams of the divine Hungerer. 1842Croly Hist. Sk. 90 The thwarted hungerer for office takes up the miserable commonplaces of politics; and is the radical. |