hunger-pain

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Noun

hunger-pain (countable and uncountable, plural hunger-pains)

  1. Alternative form of hunger pain
    • 1820, John Keats, Isabella, or The Pot of Basil:
      For seldom did she go to chapel-shrift, And seldom felt she any hunger-pain;
    • 1913, H. Frowde, Transactions: 17th International Congress of Medicine, page 63:
      We observe, for instance, ' hunger-pain' in gastric as well as in duodenal diseases.
    • 1935, The Clinical Journal - Volume 64, page 311:
      Hunger-pain, though characteristic of duodenal ulcer, may also be a feature in dyspepsia with no evidence of ulcer.