English
Noun
starveling
- One who is thin from lack of food.
Quotations
1597: If I hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows; for if I hang, old Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no starveling. — Shakespeare, Henry IV Part I, II.1
1977: Our poor little starveling Tom, who cries all day for victuals, who will see only evil and not good in this world [...] Is it poor little starveling Jack that must go, or poor little starveling Will — What an inquiry of ways and means. — Thomas Carlyle Past and Present, ISBN 0814705626, p. 10
1999: "No loinskin-wetting foreign coward is ever going to tear me apart," said Mpushu happily. "And especially not a starveling like you." — Credo Vusa'mazulu Mutwa, Vusamazulu C Mutwa in Indaba, My Children: African Folktales ISBN 0802136044, p. 85
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