ahungered
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English a-hungred, a hungryd, equivalent to a- + hungered.
Adjective
[edit]ahungered (comparative more ahungered, superlative most ahungered)
- Pinched with hunger; very hungry.
- 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Old Maids”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 264:
- To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year; but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner, […]
- 1907, Helen Elizabeth Coolidge, Poems:
- May be my strength on which they lean; / My voice! Oh, may each wanderer heed; / My table those ahungered feed.