ahungeredとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 a-hungred, a hungryd, equivalent to a- +‎ hungered.

形容詞

ahungered (comparative more ahungered, superlative most ahungered)

1. Pinched with hunger; very hungry.
   • 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Old Maids”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 264:

     To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year; but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner, […]

   • 1907, Helen Elizabeth Coolidge, Poems:

     May be my strength on which they lean; / My voice! Oh, may each wanderer heed; / My table those ahungered feed.

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