hungerly
English
Etymology
From hunger + -ly.
Adverb
hungerly (comparative more hungerly, superlative most hungerly)
- (obsolete) Hungrily.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 48, in The Essayes, […], book I, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- Croesus passing alongst the citie of Sardis found certaine thickets, wherein were great store of snakes and serpents, on which his horses fed very hungerly, which thing, as Herodotus saith, was an ill-boding prodigy unto his affaires.
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Adjective
hungerly (comparative more hungerly, superlative most hungerly)
- (obsolete) Wanting food; starved.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)