starveling

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"When I was last out, we had the worst of fare!--starveling locust wood--damned poor makeshift at gentlemanly privacy--stuck between a schoolhouse and a church!

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  1. noun One that is starving or being starved.
  2. adjective Starving.
  3. adjective Poor in quality; inadequate.

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  • Unhappily, to me alone could the question be put whether the little aspiring starveling should be reprieved for another year. —  The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
  • Away! you starveling, you eel skin, you dried neat's tongue, you stockfish! —  McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader
  • "When I was last out, we had the worst of fare!--starveling locust wood--damned poor makeshift at gentlemanly privacy--stuck between a schoolhouse and a church! —  Lewis Rand
  • He stared at it; his belly was pinched with fear as a starveling's with hunger; and yet he was conscious that, in a way, he would have been disappointed if it had not been there No other smack is shipping its fish," quavered a voice at his elbow. —  Ensign Knightley and Other Stories
  • In those days Reb Shemuel was not alone in taking to his hearth "the Sabbath guest"--some forlorn starveling or other--to sit at the table in like honor with the master. —  Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People
 

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