hungerly

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adverb

Hungrily.

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Meanings

adverbhungerly (comparative more hungerly, superlative most hungerly)

comparative more hungerly · superlative most hungerly

  1. obsoleteHungrily.

    Croesus passing alongst the citie of Sardis found certaine thickets, wherein were great store of snakes and serpents, on which his horses fed very hungerly, which thing, as Herodotus saith, was an ill-boding prodigy unto his affaires.

    1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 48, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
adjectivehungerly (comparative more hungerly, superlative most hungerly)

comparative more hungerly · superlative most hungerly

  1. obsoleteWanting food; starved.

    his beard grew thin and hungerly

    c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]

Origin

From hunger + -ly.

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