anhungry
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Variant of ahungry, equivalent to an- + hungry; the former being an alternative form of a- (etymology 2), on-.
Adjective[edit]
anhungry (comparative more anhungry, superlative most anhungry)
- (obsolete, rare) Hungry.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], chapter II, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition ii, section 1, member 2:
- The like, consil. 229, or not to eat till he be an-hungry, which rule Berengarius did most strictly observe […].