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Sharp-set   /ʃɑrp-sɛt/   Listen
Sharp-set

adjective
1.
Extremely hungry.  Synonyms: esurient, famished, ravenous, starved.  "A ravenous boy" , "The family was starved and ragged" , "Fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy"






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"Sharp-set" Quotes from Famous Books



... the other, smiling. "I thought it was not worth while to go to bed, but just gave myself a wash and brush up; and here I am, sharp-set for breakfast." ...
— Bred in the Bone • James Payn

... a dozen stragglers to come lounging over the spur or up the gulch that Sunday afternoon, sharp-set, eager-eyed prospectors, every man of them, and each one, we guessed, searching meticulously for the mysterious bonanza about which everybody in town was gossiping. It was only the fact that the hills were fairly dotted with embryotic mines like our own—this ...
— Branded • Francis Lynde



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