hunger
Meaning
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- A need or compelling desire for food.
- Any strong desire.
Synonyms
famish
be hungry
empty stomach
thirst after
thirst for
desire of eating
destitution
hunger for
desire earnestly
inappetance
get hungry
yearn for
sense of hunger
desire to eat
nestia
nesteia
feel hunger
Frequency
Hyphenated as
hun‧ger
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈhʌŋɡə/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English hunger, from Old English hungor (“hunger, desire; famine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz, *hunhruz (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *kenk- (“to burn, smart, desire, hunger, thirst”). Cognate with West Frisian honger, hûnger (“hunger”), Dutch honger (“hunger”), German Low German Hunger (“hunger”), German Hunger (“hunger”), Swedish hunger (“hunger”), Icelandic hungur (“hunger”).
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