sharp-set

American  

[shahrp-set] / ˈʃɑrpˌsɛt /

adjective

1. eager to satisfy the appetite, especially for food.

2. keen or eager.

3. set to present a sharply angled edge.

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sharp-set British  

adjective

1. set to give an acute cutting angle

2. keenly hungry

3. keen or eager

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Other Word Forms

• sharp-setness
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of sharp-set

First recorded in 1530–40

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Example Sentences

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sharp-set

With appetites sharp-set by long hours of hard labor they ate heartily; then, in the deepening twilight, they sat and talked in comradely fashion while Stevens smoked one precious cigarette.

From Spacehounds of IPC by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

We're late for supper now, and it don't do for me to get too sharp-set; there ain't likely to be more supper than what I can get away with.

From The Wooing of Calvin Parks by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

He will not refuse, being always sharp-set for a cup.

From Under the Rose by Frederic Stewart Isham

I still remembered meals which the women had given me when I had come from some hard expedition, half famished and sharp-set as a wolf.

From Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn

He never failed to carry a portion to his mother, sharp-set as he always was himself.

From Hurricane Hurry by William Henry Giles Kingston

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