Definition of Starvelings

1. Noun. (plural of starveling) ¹

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Definition of Starvelings

1. starveling [n] - See also: starveling

Lexicographical Neighbors of Starvelings

startly
starts
starts up
startsy
startup
startupper
startups
starvation
starvation acidosis
starvations
starve
starved
starved aster
starvedly
starveling
starvelings (current term)
starven
starver
starvers
starves
starving
starvings
starward
starwards
starwort
starworts
stary
stases
stash
stash away

Literary usage of Starvelings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Striking for Life: Labor's Side of the Labor Question : the Right of the by John Swinton, Samuel Gompers, Eugene Victor Debs, John William Hayes (1894)
"RUSH OF THE ALIEN starvelings—SLAVS, JEWS, AND ITALIANS. |F the new inventions and machinery of the times have brought about great changes in the condition ..."

2. A Momentous Question: The Respective Attitudes of Labor and Capital by John Swinton (1895)
"RUSH OF THE ALIEN starvelings—SLAVS, JEWS, AND ITALIANS. F the new inventions and machinery of the times have brought about great changes in the condition ..."

3. A Momentous Question: The Respective Attitudes of Labor and Capital by John Swinton (1895)
"RUSH OF THE ALIEN starvelings SLAVS, JEWS, AND ITALIANS. JF the new inventions and machinery of the times have brought about great changes in the condition ..."

4. The Jests of Hierocles and Philagrius by Hierocles, Philagrius, Rowfant Club (Cleveland, Ohio) (1920)
"The starvelings 219 A person wasted with hunger having given his daughter in marriage to another such man, and asking what he would give her as a marriage ..."

5. The Prophecies of Isaiah by Joseph Addison Alexander, John Eadie (1870)
"... fame) but simply that of hungry men, or starvelings, as Henderson expresses it. 15. To the description of the punishment the Prophet now adds that of ..."

6. Striking for Life: Labor's Side of the Labor Question by John Swinton (1894)
"... ALIEN starvelings SLAVS, JEWS, AND ITALIANS. IF the new inventions and machinery of the times have brought about great changes in the condition of ..."

7. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1859)
"His great house at Kensington is one of a pile built where a nest of starvelings was pulled down. No new nest was given to the starvelings, and they went to ..."

8. Darwinism To-day: A Discussion of Present-day Scientific Criticism of the by Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1907)
"Furthermore, the economy in this matter practised by the starvelings is not merely numerical, quality as well as quantity of eggs being affected. ..."

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