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单词 to cry cupboard
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to cry cupboard
3. transferred. Food, provisions; esp. in to cry cupboard, to crave for food, feel hungry. ? Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > hunger > be hungry [verb (intransitive)]
hungerOE
to be sharp or keen set1540
esuriate1623
to cry cupboardc1665
c1665 in Roxburghe Ballads VI. 529 And all for the love of the cubbard.
1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 412 My belly cries cupboard.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. i. 143 Should his head ach or his stomach cry cupboard.
1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! (1889) 25/2 So now away home, my inside cries cupboard.
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