Definitions
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- adverb With
hunger oryearning .
Etymologies
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hungering + -ly
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Examples
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The famishing Swanhilda clutched hungeringly at it, but found in her hand a piece of offensive carrion, and nothing more; whilst around, from every side, there rang such a clatter of commingled mockery and laughter, that Swanhilda vented a terrible imprecation, and shed once more -- a scorching tear.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various
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I looked at her hungeringly until her cheeks grew red and her eyelids fluttered.
Simon the Jester William John Locke 1896
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