单词 | ahungered |
释义 | ahungeredadj. Now archaic and rare. Reduced to hunger; in a state of hunger; hungry; = anhungered adj. Chiefly in predicative use. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > hunger > [adjective] > hungry > extremely hungry afingered?a1300 anhungereda1387 ahungereda1450 ravened1627 ravenous1648 gaunt1746 yird-hungry1825 wolfish1848 a1450 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Bodl.) (1869) B. x. l. 59 [c1400 Laud Bothe] a-hungred [a1500 Oriel an-hungred; Laud continues afyngred and a-thurst and for chele quake]. 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xii. xxv. sig. Bvi/1 Awaye he is a hungryd whyle he liuyth. 1567 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. xii. ii. 225 When their eies were ful, they put vp theire kniues, and rose ahungred. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 164 Nor..let them goe a hungerd into the pastures. 1748 Lady Luxborough Let. 28 May in Lett. to W. Shenstone (1775) 27 To eat one's cake when one is a-hungered, is most sweet. 1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. ii, in Lamia & Other Poems 176 Saturn's ear Is all a-hunger'd. 1868 ‘G. Eliot’ Spanish Gypsy ii. 182 Soothe the frightened bird And feed the child a-hungered. 1921 Amer. Federationist Mar. 233 They carried on that strike for months, many of them impoverished and ahungered. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.a1450 |
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