starveling
noun
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adj
Etymology: Etymology tree English starve English -ling English starveling From starve + -ling.
- 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[…]”
- Meagre; scanty.
“[A] few meetings in the cape-broom, a starveling allowance of kisses in a very ill-advised publicity.”
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree English starve English -ling English starveling From starve + -ling.
- 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.”
“The lean, drawn starvelings in their dream-stupefied state were jealous of my well filled out, prosperous form.”