starveling
a person, animal, or plant that is starving.
starving; suffering from lack of nourishment.
pining with want.
poor in condition or quality.
such as to entail or suggest starvation.
Origin of starveling
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How to use starveling in a sentence
Viewed from the English, or even the American point, some of these universities might be pronounced poor, not to say starvelings.
Greeks and Perugians rushed to arms, but what could they, poor starvelings, do against the Gothic host?
The Story of Perugia | Margaret SymondsHenceforth there need be no "starvelings," "elf-skins" or "dried neat's tongues" of leanness for the Falstaffs to mock.
I next paid another sum to the writers and spouters and other starvelings to denounce all who objected.
The Mercy of Allah | Hilaire BellocWith his easy goodnature, his weariness and indifference, he was soon surrounded by a lot of literary starvelings.
Artists' Wives | Alphonse Daudet
British Dictionary definitions for starveling
/ (ˈstɑːvlɪŋ) archaic /
a starving or poorly fed person, animal, etc
(as modifier): a starveling child
insufficient; meagre; scant
Origin of starveling
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