affamish

English

Etymology

From French affamer, from Latin ad + fames (“hunger”). Compare famish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈfæmɪʃ/

Verb

affamish (third-person singular simple present affamishes, present participle affamishing, simple past and past participle affamished)

1. (obsolete) To cause (somebody) to die of hunger; to starve.
   • 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet LXXXVII”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC:

     With light thereof I do myself sustain, / And thereon feed my love affamisht heart.

Derived terms

• affamishment

 

Related terms

• famish
• famine