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cried cupboard

cried cupboard is the simple past and past participle of cry cupboard.

Meaning of cry cupboard

Verb

cry cupboard (third-person singular simple present cries cupboard, present participle crying cupboard, simple past and past participle cried cupboard)

  1. (archaic, idiomatic, intransitive, obsolete) Chiefly of one's stomach: to need or want food; to show signs of hunger; to hunger.
    • My belly cries Cup⸗board; […]1681, William Robertson, “Cup⸗board”, in Phraseologia generalis; […]. A Full, Large, and General Phrase Book; […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] John Hayes, printer to the University; [a]nd are to...

Questions about cried cupboard

What is cried cupboard the simple past and past participle of?
Cried cupboard is the simple past and past participle of cry cupboard.

Words near cried cupboard in the dictionary

  1. cried beef
  2. cried blue murder
  3. cried buckets
  4. cried carrots and turnips
  5. cried craven
  6. cried cupboard
  7. cried down
  8. cried foul
  9. cried from the housetop
  10. cried from the housetops
  11. cried from the rooftop

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