anhungry

adj

anhungry

adj

Etymology Variant of ahungry, equivalent to an- + hungry; the former being an alternative form of a- (etymology 2), on-.

1

Obsolete, Rare Hungry.

  • The like, consil. 229, or not to eat till he be an-hungry, which rule Berengarius did most strictly observe […].1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], chapter II, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition ii, section 1, member 2:
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