craving
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English cravinge, from Old English crafing (“claim, demand”); equivalent to crave + -ing.
Noun[edit]
craving (plural cravings)
Descendants[edit]
- Jamaican Creole: craven
Translations[edit]
strong desire; yearning
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Etymology 2[edit]
From crave.
Verb[edit]
craving
- present participle and gerund of crave
Further reading[edit]
- “craving”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “craving”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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