Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who hungers, in either sense of that word.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who hungers; one who longs.

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  • noun One who hungers or yearns.

Etymologies

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hunger +‎ -er

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Examples

  • I thought, OK, I'm going to tell the story about The Browns and then Maxine, this dominant fame-hungerer totally took over.

    Nashville Chrome: The Legacy Of A Forsaken Country Trio 2010

  • “My lord and master,” said Christie, “hath good reason to believe that, from the information of certain back friends, whom he will reward at more leisure, your reverend community hath been led to deem him ill attached to Holy Church, allied with heretics and those who favour heresy, and a hungerer after the spoils of your Abbey.”

    The Monastery 2008

  • Even the ruthless land-hungerer, Grabantak, was solemnised.

    The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole 1859

  • Better that than the hungerer after excitements which are never allayed, the struggler in a career which admits of no retirement, -- the woman to whom marriage is no goal, who remains to the last the property of the public, and glories to dwell in a house of glass into which every bystander has a right to peer.

    The Parisians — Volume 05 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Better that than the hungerer after excitements which are never allayed, the struggler in a career which admits of no retirement, -- the woman to whom marriage is no goal, who remains to the last the property of the public, and glories to dwell in a house of glass into which every bystander has a right to peer.

    The Parisians — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • "My lord and master," said Christie, "hath good reason to believe that, from the information of certain back friends, whom he will reward at more leisure, your reverend community hath been led to deem him ill attached to Holy Church, allied with heretics and those who favour heresy, and a hungerer after the spoils of your Abbey."

    The Monastery Walter Scott 1801

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