sharp-set
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English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]sharp-set (comparative more sharp-set, superlative most sharp-set)
- (dated, idiomatic) eager in appetite or desire of gratification; ravenous
- an eagle or a lion sharp-set
- December 7, 1711, Henry Cromwell, letter to Alexander Pope
- The town is sharp-set on new plays.
- 1880, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped:
- "Are ye sharp-set?" he asked, glancing at about the level of my knee. "Ye can eat that drop parritch."