hungerly
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]hungerly (comparative more hungerly, superlative most hungerly)
- (obsolete) Hungrily.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 48, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- Croesus passing alongst the citie of Sardis found certaine thickets, wherein were great store of snakes and serpents, on which his horses fed very hungerly, which thing, as Herodotus saith, was an ill-boding prodigy unto his affaires.
Adjective
[edit]hungerly (comparative more hungerly, superlative most hungerly)
- (obsolete) Wanting food; starved.
- c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
- his beard grew thin and hungerly