Sekirov Dictionary

starveling

adjective 2
noun 1
forms 3

adjective2

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Starving; suffering from starvation.
- As for the starveling rebels of our region, they soon began to reappear in town, more starved and abject, their blackened rags hanging on them[…] — 1979
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Meagre; scanty.
- [A] few meetings in the cape-broom, a starveling allowance of kisses in a very ill-advised publicity. — 1930

noun1

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One who is thin from lack of food.
- If I hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows; for if I hang, old Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no starveling. — 1597

forms

starvelings · more starveling · most starveling

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