hunger pain

plural hunger pains · alternative hunger-pain · alternative hungerpain

1. countableuncountableEggcorn of hunger pang.

   I knew I needed to get my artwork out in front of the public since, for the first time in my life, I was really hungry. Hunger pain kind of hungry.

   2009, Robert F. Smallwood, Jackson Squared, page 29

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   Given a history of repeated, definite attacks of hunger pain and food ease, recurring each day at the same time after meals, and relieved by food or alkalies; with intervals of normal health; the attacks gradually' increasing in severity and frequence, a positive diagnosis of duodenal ulcer should be made.

   1910, New York State Journal of Medicine - Volumes 10-11, page 538

   He concluded that hunger pains in ulcer cases are not due to hunger contractions per se, but to hyperexcitability of the sensory nerves in the stomach wall.

   1920, American Medicine - Volume 26, page 424

   A typical presentation will be chronic dyspepsia with an epigastric gnawing or hunger pain, both of which are temporarily relieved by food or antacids.

   2007, David Scott Smith, Field Guide to Bedside Diagnosis, page 114

   To think, my father and I went jet-skiing off the coast of a nation characterized by constant hunger pains, only to return to our ship in time for the elaborate banquet held that evening.

   2007, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), A Future with No One Living in Poverty and Hunger, page 1

   Donovan's observations show that the early onset of acute hunger pain subsides after approximately twenty-four hours. He quotes one of his cases as telling him that feelings of acute hunger were followed by symptoms that included “a feeling of weakness and sinking and an insatiable thirst for cold water."

   2012, Tim Pat Coogan, The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy