hungered, a.
(ˈhʌŋgəd)
[Partly aphetic form of a-hungered, partly pa. pple. of hunger v. 5.]
Hungry; famished, starved.
| c 1425 Eng. Conq. Irel. xlvi. 116 Beseged & hungrod. 1477 Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 21 a, He ete whansomeuer he was hungered. 1573 Satir. Poems Reform. xlii. 636 The pepill salbe houngerit haill Of Spirituall fude. 1790 J. Williams Shrove Tuesday (1794) 21 The courier..bid the hunger'd eat. 1837 Lytton E. Maltrav. i. i. 4 To get food when I'm hungered. 1871 Tennyson Last Tourn. 713, I am hunger'd and half-anger'd. Mod.Sc. A puir hungert creatur. |
¶ a hungered, an hungered: improperly divided forms of a-hungered, anhungered, q.v.
| 1398, etc. [see a-hungered, anhungered]. 1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iv. (1586) 164 Nor..let them goe a hungerd into the Pastures. 1841 James Brigand xxiii, I trust that supper is ready, for I am an hungered. |