hungry
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English hungry, from Old English hungriġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hungrug, from Proto-Germanic *hungrugaz (“hungry”); equivalent to hunger + -y. Cognate with West Frisian hongerich (“hungry”), Dutch hongerig (“hungry”), German hungrig (“hungry”), Swedish hungrig (“hungry”), Icelandic hungraður (“hungry”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]hungry (comparative hungrier, superlative hungriest)
- Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.
- Causing hunger.
- All this gardening is hungry work.
- (figuratively) Eager, having an avid desire (‘appetite’) for something.
- young and hungry
- the students are hungry to learn
- 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
- Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
- 1850, [Charles Kingsley], chapter V, in Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 5:
- They rowed her in across the rolling foam, / The cruel, crawling foam, / The cruel, hungry foam, / To her grave beside the sea:
- 2022 November 23, Hadley Freeman, “Like a cinema virgin: how Madonna went stratospheric making Desperately Seeking Susan”, in The Guardian[1]:
- It’s an astonishing roll call of future talent from when they were still young and hungry in Manhattan.
- Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.
- a hungry soil
- c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
- […] What is this? / Your knees to me? to your corrected son? / Then let the pebbles on the hungry beach / Fillip the stars […]
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]affected by hunger; desirous of food
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eager, having a desire for something
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See also
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (Early ME) hungrig, hunngriȝ, houngrie
- hungrie, hungri, hungre, hungery, hongry, hungury, hungorie, hungrye
Etymology
[edit]From Old English hungriġ, from Proto-Germanic *hungragaz; equivalent to hunger + -y.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]hungry
- Hungry or starving; afflicted by hunger or starvation.
- Voracious; having a great desire or compulsion to eat.
- Haggard, scrawny; shriveled due to hunger or starvation.
- (rare) Due to hunger; because of one's appetite.
- (rare) Desirous; wanting something to a great degree.
- (rare) Causing or producing hunger.
- (rare) Of earth; not productive.
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “hungrī(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-19.
Noun
[edit]hungry
- Those who are hungry, starving, or of little means.
References
[edit]- “hungrī(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-19.
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