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crying cupboard

crying cupboard is the present participle and gerund 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 crying cupboard

What is crying cupboard the present participle and gerund of?
Crying cupboard is the present participle and gerund of cry cupboard.

Words near crying cupboard in the dictionary

  1. crying buckets
  2. crying call
  3. crying calls
  4. crying carrots and turnips
  5. crying craven
  6. crying cupboard
  7. crying down
  8. crying foul
  9. crying from the housetop
  10. crying from the housetops
  11. crying from the rooftop

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