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Webster 1913 Edition


Hungerly

Hun′ger-ly

,
Adj.
Wanting food; starved.
[Obs.]
Shak.

Hun′ger-ly

,
adv.
With keen appetite.
[Obs.]
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition


Hungerly

HUN'GERLY

,
Adj.
Hungry; wanting food or nourishment.

HUN'GERLY

,
adv.
With keen appetite. [Little used.]

Definition 2024


hungerly

hungerly

English

Adverb

hungerly (comparative more hungerly, superlative most hungerly)

  1. (obsolete) Hungrily.
    • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, I.48:
      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.

Adjective

hungerly (comparative more hungerly, superlative most hungerly)

  1. (obsolete) Wanting food; starved.
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