† an-ˈhungry, a. Obs. rare.
[variant of a-hungry, the a- or an- being due to assoc. with a-hungered, an-hungered, though perhaps meant to be intensive.]
Hungry, in a hungry state.
| 1607 Shakes. Cor. i. i. 209 They said they were an hungry: sigh'd forth Prouerbes; That Hunger broke stone wals: that, dogges must eate. 1681 R. Knox Hist. Ceylon 123 Many times we were forced to remain an hungry. |