hungrisome

adj

hungrisome

adj

Etymology From hungry + -some.

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Scotland, UK, Dialectal Having a keen appetite, hungry.

For thirty would not suit this hungrisome Quintin of ours.1898, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The Standard Bearer, page 102:
"She'm hungrisome, Captain, ” said Abner.1925, Henry Williamson, Sun Brothers, page 77:

Related terms: hungersome

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