Word of the Day:
hungry
What It Means
Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.
Causing hunger.
Eager; having an avid desire or appetite for something.
My kids go to bed hungry every night because I haven’t got much money for food.
Hungry in Context
“[…] What is this? / Your knees to me? to your corrected son? / Then let the pebbles on the hungry beach / Fillip the stars […]”
Did You Know?
From Middle English hungry, from Old English hungriġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hungrug, from Proto-Germanic *hungrugaz (“hungry”); equivalent to hunger + -y. Cognate with West Frisian hongerich (“hungry”), Dutch hongerig (“hungry”), German hungrig (“hungry”), Swedish hungrig (“hungry”), Icelandic hungraður (“hungry”).
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