hungeredadj.
/ˈhʌŋɡəd/ Hungry; 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
c1425 Eng. Conq. Irel. xlvi. 116 Beseged & hungrod.
1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 21 He ete whansomeuer he was hungered.
1573 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlii. 636 The pepill salbe houngerit haill Of Spirituall fude.
1790 J. Williams Shrove Tuesday (1794) 21 The courier..bid the hunger'd eat.
1837 E. Bulwer-Lytton Ernest Maltravers I. i. i. 7 To get food when I'm hungered.
1872 Ld. Tennyson Last Tournament in Gareth & Lynette 133 I am hunger'd and half-anger'd.
1899 N.E.D. at Hungered Mod.Sc. A puir hungert creatur.
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