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Definition of Starveling
1. Noun. Someone who is starving (or being starved).
Definition of Starveling
1. n. One who, or that which, pines from lack or food, or nutriment.
2. a. Hungry; lean; pining with want.
Definition of Starveling
1. Noun. One who is thin from lack of food. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Starveling
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Starveling
Literary usage of Starveling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1908)
"... here and there one of enormous size, surrounded by thousands of poor little
starveling things, scarcely distinguishable by the keenest eye, or, if seen, ..."
2. Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1908)
"... here and there one of enormous size, surrounded by thousands of poor little
starveling things, scarcely distinguishable by the keenest eye, or, if seen, ..."
3. Later Leaves: Being the Further Reminiscences of Montagu Williams by Montagu Stephen Williams (1891)
"... from pillar to post—Death of the little starveling—An attempt to relieve the
rates. I WAS counsel in the only case of high treason that occurred during ..."
4. The Reader's Handbook of Allusions, References, Plots and Stories: With Two by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1880)
"... may all be ranged under fee tales. Feeble (Franck), a woman's tailor, and one
of the recruits of sir John Fal- staff. Although a thin, starveling ..."
5. University Addresses by William Watts Folwell (1909)
"the dozen or more petty, starveling, ill-appointed affairs, in which as a people
you will have no common interest. And you can take your choice between ..."
6. University Addresses by William Watts Folwell (1909)
"the dozen or more petty, starveling, ill-appointed affairs, in which as a people
you will have no common interest. And you can take your choice between ..."
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