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单词 hunger-bitten
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hunger-bittenadj.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈhunger-bitten.
‘Bitten’ or pinched with hunger; famished, starved.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > hunger > [adjective] > hungry > starving or starved
hungryc950
ofhungeredOE
hungeredc1425
famylousc1475
forhungered1481
hunger-starvena1533
starven1546
hunger-bit1549
hunger-bitten1549
affamished1554
starved1563
starving1581
gaunted1582
famishing1587
food-sick1587
hunger-starving1592
famined1622
gut-foundered1647
hunger-starved1647
starved-gut1653
half-starved1667
clemmed1674
nushed1691
pinch-gutted1704
starve-gutted1726
clemming1773
clung1807
1549 J. Cheke Hurt of Sedicion sig. D6v When euerye man for lacke is hongerbitten.
1615 J. Stephens Satyrical Ess. 12 The hunger-bitten Client to distresse.
1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. 36 A hunger-bitten and idea-less philosophy.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

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hunger-bitten
3. Often combined with instrumental ns., as hunger-bitten, hunger-bit, vice-bitten, etc. See also frostbitten adj.
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1599 H. C. in Greenham's Wks. To Rdr., The thirstie soule..Or hunger-bit.
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ vi. 78 The leaves..before they are much frost-bitten.
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. xxvii. 164 A man vice-bitten.
extracted from bittenadj.
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adj.1549
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