Hungerly
adj, adv
adj, adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Wanting food; starved. obsolete
"his beard grew thin and hungerly"
Adverb
- 1 Hungrily. obsolete
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From hunger + -ly.
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