hungrily
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English hungriliche, equivalent to hungry + -ly.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]hungrily (comparative more hungrily, superlative most hungrily)
- In a hungry way or manner; with hunger.
- 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 92:
- For at the last shall the thunder, fleeing to escape from the doom of the gods, roar horribly among the Worlds; and Time, the hound of the gods, shall bay hungrily at his masters because he is lean with age.
- 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 263:
- Nungi was too hungrily cross to be respectful.