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adjective

Hungry adj. (compar. hungrier; superl. hungriest)

Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire.

Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious. "The cruel, hungry foam." "Cassius has a lean and hungry look."

Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil. "The hungry beach."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hungry" Quotes from Famous Books

... he was very hungry, and when a bent and withered crone of a squaw brought food and loosed his right hand, the young factor tossed up his head to get the falling hair out of his eyes and fell to ...

— The Maid of the Whispering Hills • Vingie E. Roe

... were all hungry, and in the following silence the jangle of iron on coarse queensware, and the aspiration of beverages steaming still though undergoing the cooling medium of saucers, filled in all lulls that might otherwise have ...

— A Breath of Prairie and other stories • Will Lillibridge

... the young ladies and pretended to kiss her. This act of his was enough to set one of the Englishmen on fire. "I shall not allow you," he said, "to touch the lady. You have no right to do it." Fouche then desisted; he withdrew his arm, and asked the young lady for some food, as he was very hungry. His friend calmed down, and they began to converse. By chance one of the scouts touched his pocket and noticed that there was something strange in it. "What is that hard thing in your pocket?" he queried. ...

— In the Shadow of Death • P. H. Kritzinger and R. D. McDonald

... shir, shince I told my shervant Sthavaraka to take the bullock-cart and come as quick as he could. And even yet he is not here. I 've been hungry a long time, and at noon a man can't go a-foot. ...

— The Little Clay Cart - Mrcchakatika • (Attributed To) King Shudraka

... slowly died from the room in which Ralph sat alone. The music had ceased in the rapture of its melody. He strained to catch the faintest lingering echoes; for a moment the memory lulled him into peace; but soon it failed, and he paced the room so hungry for the sound to come again that he was conscious of no other desire left in life. She had gone without speaking; abruptly a chasm had been cut in his course, down which the tide of his being plunged in disorder; fell upon rocks; flung itself to destruction. The distress had an effect of physical ...

— Night and Day • Virginia Woolf

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