hungree

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Adjective[edit]

hungree

  1. Eye dialect spelling of hungry.

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle English hungry, from Old English hungriġ.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

hungree

  1. hungry
    Synonym: hungherth

References[edit]

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 47
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