STARVELING

n. a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

One who, or that which, pines from lack or food, or nutriment. Old Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no starveling. Shak.

2.
a.

Hungry; lean; pining with want.


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