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hungrily

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Etymology

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From Middle English hungriliche, equivalent to hungry-ly.

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hungrily (comparative more hungrily, superlative most hungrily)

  1. In a hungry way or manner; with hunger.
    • 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, [], →OCLC, page 92:
      For at the last shall the thunder, fleeing to escape from the doom of the gods, roar horribly among the Worlds; and Time, the hound of the gods, shall bay hungrily at his masters because he is lean with age.
    • 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 263:
      Nungi was too hungrily cross to be respectful.

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