Greedy; gluttonous; covetous. Also: desirous, yearning.

Having an intense desire or inordinate appetite for food or drink; ravenous, voracious, gluttonous. †In some of the earlier quots. the meaning is…

That robs, reaves, or plunders. Also: (of an animal) ravening, voracious.

Voracious.

Of an animal: ravening; voracious. Obsolete. rare.

Of an animal: that seizes upon prey; rapacious. Also in extended use. Obsolete.

Originally: (of an animal) given to seizing other animals as prey; predatory; ferocious. Later: (of an animal or person; also of the appetite…

That ravens (in various senses of the verb); rapacious, voracious, bloodthirsty; ravenously hungry. In quot. 1390 as n.: a person who ravens; the…

Predatory, rapacious.

That eats; chiefly in combination with prefixed object. Formerly also, Greedy, voracious.

Greedy, gluttonous.

Displaying relish, greedy. Obsolete.

Very hungry; ravenous.

Voracious, ravenous.

Glutton-like, voracious.

Like a falcon; proper to or characteristic of a falcon.

= ravenous, adj. (in various senses). Obsolete.

Resembling that of a vulture; ravenous.

That has been ravened (in various senses of the verb). Also: ravening, ravenous.

Greedy; voracious. Obsolete.

Promoting appetite; also, inclined to eat; (of the appetite) voracious.

Of animals (rarely of persons, or of the throat): Eating with greediness; devouring food in large quantities; gluttonous, ravenous. Also const. of.

belly-worshipping.

= tigerish, adj. 1.

Greedy, voracious. Originally Scottish.

= bulimic, adj.

Of or relating to excessive eating or appetite. rare.

permanently hungry; having a ravenous appetite.

Of or relating to eating; devoted to eating, voracious. Now chiefly humorous.

Eating much, voracious; = polyphagic, adj. 2. Obsolete. rare.

= tigerish, adj. 1.

Of, relating to, associated with, or affected by bulimia, (in later use) spec. bulimia nervosa. Also in figurative context and figurative.

of or exhibiting hyperphagia.