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hungries

hungries noun: hunger or cravings for food.

Noun (1)

hungries pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only, slang) Hunger or cravings for food.
    • "At my age, I'm lucky to get the hungries at all," he answered1993, Henry St. Clair Whitehead, Robert Ervin Howard, To sleep, perchance to dream ... nightmare: thirty terrifying tales
    • You have just been attacked by the hungries!1990, Mary Joan Oexmann, The Heart Factor Food Plan

Noun (2) capitalized: Hungries

Hungries pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) The poets of the Hungry generation.

Origin of hungries

A fanciful plural of hungry

Questions about hungries

What does hungries mean?
Hungries means hunger or cravings for food.
What part of speech is hungries?
Hungries is a noun.

Words near hungries in the dictionary

  1. hungover
  2. hungred
  3. hungree
  4. Hungrel
  5. hungrier
  6. hungries
  7. hungriest
  8. hungrified
  9. hungrifies
  10. hungrify
  11. hungrifying

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