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▪ I. hungerly, a. Obs. or arch.|ˈhʌŋgəlɪ|
[f. hunger n. +-ly1.]
Hungry-looking; having a hungry, starved, or famished look.
1393Langl. P. Pl. C. vii. 197 Ich can nat hym discryue, So hongerliche and so holwe heruy hym-self lokede. 1555Eden Decades 99 Owre men were enforced to departe from thense more hungerly then theye came. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. iii. ii. 177 His beard grew thinne and hungerly. 1846Mrs. Gore Eng. Char. (1852) 55 The linkmen of London..are poor, lean, hungerly, brisk, and knowing.
▪ II. ˈhungerly, adv. Obs. or arch.
[f. hunger n. + -ly2: in use a variant of hungrily. Very frequent 1550–1650.]
Hungrily; greedily.
1557Burrough in Hakluyt Voy. (1886) III. 156, I sawe them eate rocke weedes as hungerly, as a cowe doeth grasse when shee is hungrie. 1607Shakes. Timon i. i. 262, I feed Most hungerly on your sight. 1653Holcroft Procopius, Vandal Wars ii. 36 The Vandale boy caught it first, and hungerly thrust it hot into his mouth. 1861Ld. Lytton & Fane Tannhäuser 36 Hungerly our ears Wait the melodious murmurs of a harp. |