Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that is starving or being starved.
- adj. Starving.
- adj. Poor in quality; inadequate.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A starving or starved person; an animal or a plant that is made thin or lean and weak through want of nourishment.
- Starving (from hunger or cold); hungry; lean; pining with want.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who, or that which, pines from lack of food, or nutriment.
- adj. Hungry; lean; pining with want.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who is starving (or being starved)
Etymologies
- starve + -ling (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And this after what the magazine calls "decades of whittling" in the state's financial support for UC, culminating in a "starveling" budget!”
“Compare some of these to what's said this political season: ⢠"You starveling, you eel skin, you bull's pizzle!" ⢠"You stock-fish, you bow case!”
The Huffington Post: Ken Adelman: Bard Blog: Candidate Insults
“• "You starveling, you eel skin, you bull's pizzle!”
The Huffington Post: Ken Adelman: Bard Blog: Candidate Insults
“The silly spotty dog is a natural-eared blue merle Great Dane; her name is Signy; she's ten years and one month old, and when I first met her as a two-year-old she was a starveling shelter rescue so thin I could span her waist with my hands.”
“As these creatures were changed from the starveling savages who were their ancestors.”
“Mrs. Crook, "she turned to call to the departing housekeeper," when you've done wi 'the bannocks, fix this starveling man a bowl of parritch to fill in the chinks with.”
“Whose fscking brilliant idea was it to take this starveling waif and stretch her across these rough, scratchy, painful rocks so that one of them is digging visibly into her chest?”
“I tasted the wine Galan had drunk, his full lower lip, his curving upper lip, and I was a starveling at a feast, my kisses all hunger and gluttony, and his were the same.”
“One of my sisters was in downtown San Jose when this starveling stray all but clawed through a fence to get to her.”
“These are long gaunt starveling hounds, they are war dogs, hell dogs, boneyard hounds beset by parasitic mites, by dog tumors and dog cancers.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘starveling’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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phrontistery-s
from phrontistery.info
sabaton, sabbatarian, sabbulonarium, sabelline, sabin, sable, sabliere, sabot, sabretache, sabulous, saburration, saccade and 1593 more...
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Slam Fodder
Those words that will inevitable end up in a Slam Poem
feel free to challenge me!:)bumptious, gamekeeper, slamily, burbuliatorius, cryptomnesia, paradox, pulchritudinous, mimetic, anhedonia, skelf, rampike, furlough and 84 more...
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ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
opprobrium, tedium, encomium, odium, ire, enmity, beguile, wile, brazen, popinjay, squit, hoity-toity and 1161 more...
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How do you like Kipling?
Words which fit the joke format: "How do you like X-in(g)? I don't know, I've never X-ed".
kipling, duckling, fingerling, groundling, chickling, chitterling, changeling, gosling, yearling, hireling, inkling, quisling and 98 more...
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Gil Blas
Interesting words and usages from Smollett's 1749 translation of Lesage's L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane
reck, durance, rhodomontade, hangdog, trap, lustre, pin, boggle, dandle, birthday suit, colic, gripes and 238 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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hagendas 2008
mise-en-scene, occultation, lodestone, obdurate, remontoire, filigree, insensate, carapace, vicissitude, verdigris, indivuation, intercalate and 224 more...
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Dictionary.com Words of the Days of 2001
1999 · 2000 · 2001 · 2002 · 2003 · 2004 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008
acclimate, stentorian, expeditious, proselytize, equable, sacrosanct, indefatigable, gravid, hyperbole, funereal, flibbertigibbet, vet and 353 more...
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persnickety parlance
behoove, ebullient, insouciant, insipient, froth, quandary, quixotic, tendril, maktub, furrow, furl, anastrophe and 1076 more...
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wordn't-you-just-know-it
autopolyploid, stimthought, vandanbladderstiddle, word's eye view, ménagerie à trois, technonotice, bluebell, slanticular, ante-jentacular, splunge, turkish room, uxorial and 770 more...
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me + student loans =
You know that feeling when you open your wallet and all you can find inside are ATM receipts?
When being a squatter is the least of your worries and that thing called dignity is shove...destitution, beggary, impecuniosity, indigence, mendicancy, poor, impoverishment, pauperism, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, poverty and 168 more...
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-ling
sapling, inkling, changeling, sheiling, quisling, seedling, darkling, starling, dwindling, darling, starveling, riesling and 6 more...
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precious
adorable sounding words and whatnot.
finikin, slimikin, tinkershere, ateknia, kindergraph, skygodlin, amoret, belles-lettres, bellwether, bonnibel, sylph, basorexia and 54 more...
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The Algebraist's Lexicon
Iain M. Banks made up a lot of terminology for 'The Algebraist' that may or may not have originated from actual words. Regardless, I think they are lovely words.
archimandrite, starveling, ambient fleet, rhuman, ahuman, shear-sword, slow seer, sept, dweller, arteria, informorta, mercatoria and 55 more...
Tweets
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yarb ...he loaded my plate as if he had been cramming the craw of a starveling.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 9 ch. 4 Oct 7, 2008