anhungry

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Variant of ahungry, equivalent to an- +‎ hungry; the former being an alternative form of a- (etymology 2), on-.

Adjective

anhungry (comparative more anhungry, superlative most anhungry)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Hungry.
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], chapter II, in The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, partition ii, section 1, member 2:
      The like, consil. 229, or not to eat till he be an-hungry, which rule Berengarius did most strictly observe […].
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