Starveling

If I hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows; for if I hang, old Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no starveling.

As for the starveling rebels of our region, they soon began to reappear in town, more starved and abject, their blackened rags hanging on them[…]

[A] few meetings in the cape-broom, a starveling allowance of kisses in a very ill-advised publicity.