English

Adjective

esurient ‎(comparative more esurient, superlative most esurient)

1. Very hungry or greedy; ravenous.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bailey to this entry?)

   • Carlyle

     Poor, but esurient.

   • 1983, Alasdair Gray, ‘Logopandocy’, Canongate 2012 (Every Short Story 1951-2012), p. 177:

     I answered that such freedom would be worse than the vilest slavery, for it would leave me free to do nothing but grappel till death with clusterfist creditors and esurient Kirkists […].

2. avid

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:voracious

Noun

esurient ‎(plural esurients)

1. One who is hungry or greedy.
   • Wood

     An insatiable esurient after riches.

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Latin

Verb

ēsurient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of ēsuriō