hunger-pain

A form of hunger pain — Eggcorn of hunger pang.

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Meanings

nounhunger-pain (countable and uncountable, plural hunger-pains)

plural hunger-pains

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of hunger pain.

    For seldom did she go to chapel-shrift, And seldom felt she any hunger-pain;

    1820, John Keats, Isabella, or The Pot of Basil
    2 more examples

    We observe, for instance, ' hunger-pain' in gastric as well as in duodenal diseases.

    1913, H. Frowde, Transactions: 17th International Congress of Medicine, page 63

    Hunger-pain, though characteristic of duodenal ulcer, may also be a feature in dyspepsia with no evidence of ulcer.

    1935, The Clinical Journal - Volume 64, page 311
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