Definition of hungry

"hungry" in the adjective sense

1. hungry

feeling hunger feeling a need or desire to eat food

"a world full of hungry people"

2. athirst, hungry, thirsty

usually followed by `for') extremely desirous

"athirst for knowledge"

"hungry for recognition"

"thirsty for information"

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Quotations for hungry

An hungry louse bites sore. [ Proverb ]

A hungry belly has no ears. [ Proverb ]

Hungry bellies have no ears. [ Proverb ]

Hungry men think the cook lazy. [ Proverb ]

Hard fare makes hungry bellies. [ Proverb ]

A hungry man smells meat afar off. [ Proverb ]

Hungry horses make a clean manger. [ Proverb ]

Nothing comes amiss to a hungry man. [ Proverb ]

Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings. [ Proverb ]

Golden dreams make men awake hungry. [ Proverb ]

The hungry belly thinks the throat cut. [ Proverb ]

Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave. [ Thomson ]

Who can cloy the hungry edge of appetite? [ William Shakespeare ]

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign.
And wretches hang that jurymen may dine. [ Pope ]

An hungry kite sees a dead horse afar off. [ Proverb ]

The hungry stomach rarely scorns plain fare. [ Horace ]

No man is so facetious as when he is hungry. [ Plaut ]

All human history attests
That happiness for man - the hungry sinner —
Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner! [ Byron ]

Cats are hungry when a crust will content them. [ Proverb ]

Man's heart eats all things, and is hungry still. [ Young ]

The ass that is hungry will eat any kind of litter. [ Italian Proverb ]

She was so hungry she could not stay for the parson to say grace. [ Proverb ]

Cut the pizza in four pieces. I'm not hungry enough to eat eight. [ Yogi Berra ]

A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers. [ Seneca ]

Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but a comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to. [ Bishop Horne ]

Duty speaks with the lawful authority of many voices; pleasure has no strength except in the longing desire of the hungry unit. [ Edith Simcox ]

Let me have men about me that are fat; sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights; yonder Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [ William Shakespeare ]

hungry in Scrabble®

The word hungry is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters hungry:

HUNGRY
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word hungry

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In hungry

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hungry in Words With Friends™

The word hungry is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters hungry:

HUNGRY
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In hungry

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Words within the letters of hungry

2 letter words in hungry (3 words)

3 letter words in hungry (8 words)

4 letter words in hungry (2 words)

6 letter words in hungry (1 word)

hungry + 2 blanks (3 words)

Words containing the sequence hungry

Words that start with hungry (1 word)

Words with hungry in them (1 word)

Words that end with hungry (2 words)

Word Growth involving hungry

Shorter words in hungry

un hung

Longer words containing hungry

powerhungry