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English
Etymology
From Middle English hungriliche, equivalent to hungry + -ly.
Pronunciation
Adverb
hungrily (comparative more hungrily, superlative most hungrily)
- In a hungry way or manner; with hunger.
1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: Elkin Mathews, , →OCLC, page 92:For at the last shall the thunder, fleeing to escape from the doom of the gods, roar horribly among the Worlds; and Time, the hound of the gods, shall bay hungrily at his masters because he is lean with age.
1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 263:Nungi was too hungrily cross to be respectful.
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