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Definitions for starveling
ˈstɑrv lɪŋstarveling
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Princeton's WordNet
starvelingnoun
someone who is starving (or being starved)
Wiktionary
starvelingnoun
One who is thin from lack of food.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Starvelingnoun
An animal thin and weak for want of nourishment.
Etymology: from starve.
If I hang, I’ll make a fat pair of gallows; for old sir John hangs with me, and he’s no starveling. William Shakespeare.
Now thy alms is giv’n, the letter’s read;
The body risen again, the which was dead;
And thy poor starveling bountifully fed. John Donne.The fat ones would be making sport with the lean, and calling them starvelings. Roger L'Estrange.
The thronging clusters thin
By kind avulsion; else the starv’ling brood,
Void of sufficient sustenance, will yield
A slender Autumn. Philips.Poor starveling bard, how small thy gains!
How unproportion’d to thy pains! Jonathan Swift.
Wikipedia
starveling
Robin Starveling is a character in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1596), one of the Rude Mechanicals of Athens who plays the part of Moonshine in their performance of Pyramus and Thisbe. His part is often considered one of the more humorous in the play, as he uses a lantern in a failed attempt to portray Moonshine and is wittily derided by his audience.
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starveling
A starveling is a person or animal suffering from malnutrition or starvation; an extremely thin or emaciated individual due to lack of food. It can also refer to someone who is deprived or lacking in something.
Webster Dictionary
Starvelingnoun
one who, or that which, pines from lack or food, or nutriment
Starvelingadjective
hungry; lean; pining with want
Etymology: [Starve + -ling.]
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of starveling in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of starveling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
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