hungry
Middle English
/ˈhunɡriː/
adj
Definitions
- 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.
Etymology
Inherited from Old English hungriġ inherited from Proto-Germanic *hungragaz (hungry) affix from Middle English hunger.
Origin
Middle English
hunger
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ahungry English
- anhungry English
- bloodhungry English
- cumhungry English
- hunger English
- hungrily English
- hungriness English
- hungry English
- nonhungry English
- overhungry English
- unhungry English
- *hungragaz Proto-Germanic
- hungor Old English
- hungriġ Old English
- hunger Middle English
- hungren Middle English
- hungrylych Middle English
- hongerich Middle Dutch
- hangre Tok Pisin
- hanggre Bislama
- angre Torres Strait Creole