starveling

American  

[stahrv-ling] / ˈstɑrv lɪŋ /

noun

1. a person, animal, or plant that is starving.

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adjective

1. starving; suffering from lack of nourishment.

2. pining with want.

3. poverty-stricken.

4. poor in condition or quality.

5. such as to entail or suggest starvation.

starveling British  

/ ˈstɑːvlɪŋ /

noun

1. 1. a starving or poorly fed person, animal, etc

   2. ( as modifier )

      a starveling child

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adjective

1. insufficient; meagre; scant

Etymology

Origin of starveling

First recorded in 1540–50; starve + -ling ¹

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Example Sentences

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starveling

It is then frozen and shipped to the starveling.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like many another Irishman, he sees the skull beneath the skin, just as his starveling heroes see the sharp rocks gnaw through the thin soil.

From Time Magazine Archive

Held to a starveling 22-yds. rushing in the first half, the Patriots went into the break trailing 13-9.

From Time Magazine Archive

From the starveling stepchild of industry, scientific experimentation has become an industry in itself?perhaps the key industry.

From Time Magazine Archive

And Carmel, begun by starveling writers and unwanted painters, is now a community of the well-to-do and the retired.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

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