单词 | yerd-hunger |
释义 | yerd-hunger Sc. ‘Earth-hunger’: (a) voracious desire for land (cf. eard-hunger in Scott Nigel ix); (b) see quot. 1825. So yerd-hungry a. See also yird.
1823Scott Let. in Lockhart (1839) VII. 155 About the land, I have no doubt your Lordship is quite right, but I have something of what is called the yeard hunger. 1825Jamieson, Yerd-hunger..1. That keen desire of food, which is sometimes manifested by persons before death... 2. Voraciousness; the term being used in a general sense. Ibid., Yerd-hungry,..voraciously hungry. |

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