hungry
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/
hungry (comparative hungrier, superlative hungriest)
- Affected by hunger; desiring of food; having a physical need for food.
- My kids go to bed hungry every night because I haven't got any money.
- (figuratively) Eager, having an avid desire (‘appetite’) for something.
- 1850, Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke, London: Chapman & Hall, Volume 2, Chapter 5, p. 56,
- They rowed her in across the rolling foam,
- The cruel, crawling foam,
- The cruel, hungry foam,
- To her grave beside the sea:
- circa 1599 William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (play), Act I, Scene 2,
- Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
- 1850, Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke, London: Chapman & Hall, Volume 2, Chapter 5, p. 56,
- Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.
- a hungry soil
- circa 1607 William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act V, Scene 3,
- […] What is this?
- Your knees to me? to your corrected son?
- Then let the pebbles on the hungry beach
- Fillip the stars […]
- French: affamé, avoir faim (to be hungry)
- German: hungrig; Hunger haben (to be hungry)
- Italian: affamato
- Portuguese: faminto, com fome, esfomeado
- Russian: голо́дный
- Spanish: hambriento
- German: gierig
- Portuguese: faminto
- Russian: а́лчущий
- Spanish: hambriento
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