Word.ws English Dictionary

hunger-pain

hunger-pain is the alternative form of hunger pain.

Meaning of hunger pain

Noun

hunger pain (countable and uncountable, plural hunger pains)

  1. Eggcorn of hunger pang.
    • Given a history of repeated, definite attacks of hunger pain and food ease, recurring each day at the same time after meals, and relieved by food or alkalies; with intervals of normal health; the attacks gradually' increasing in severity and frequence, a positive diagnosis of duodenal ulcer should...1910, New York State Journal of Medicine - Volumes 10-11, page 538

Forms of hunger-pain

pluralhunger-pains

Questions about hunger-pain

What is hunger-pain the alternative form of?
Hunger-pain is the alternative form of hunger pain.

Words near hunger-pain in the dictionary

  1. hunger stones
  2. hunger strike
  3. hunger striker
  4. hunger strikers
  5. hunger strikes
  6. hunger-pain
  7. hunger-pains
  8. hungerbitten
  9. hungered
  10. hungerer
  11. hungerers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hunger-pain (page history and authors); hunger pain (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hunger-pain.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hunger-pain. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.