hungry
English
/ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/
adj
Definitions
- Affected by hunger; desiring of food; having a physical need for food.
- Causing hunger
- (figuratively) Eager, having an avid desire (‘appetite’) for something.
- Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English hungry inherited from Old English hungriġ inherited from Proto-Germanic *hungragaz (hungry) suffix from English hunger.
Origin
English
hunger
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ahungry English
- anhungry English
- anti-hunger English
- antihunger English
- blood English
- bloodhungry English
- cum English
- cumhungry English
- enhunger English
- forhunger English
- hunger English
- hungerbitten English
- hungerer English
- hungerest English
- hungereth English
- hungerful English
- hungerless English
- hungerly English
- hungersome English
- hungrily English
- hungriness English
- nonhungry English
- overhungry English
- unhungry English
- Hunger German
- abenteuerhungrig German
- geldhungrig German
- hungern German
- hungrig German
- liebeshungrig German
- honger Dutch, Flemish
- hongerig Dutch, Flemish
- *hungragaz Proto-Germanic
- hungriġ Old English
- hunger Middle English
- hungry Middle English
- hungrylych Middle English
- unhungrye Middle English
- hongerich Middle Dutch
- hungrar Ido
- hungro Ido
- hangre Tok Pisin
- hanggre Bislama
- angre Torres Strait Creole