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Scots
Adjective
kyte-clung (not comparable)
- (archaic) Having a sunken belly; starved.
- 1888, James Nicholson, "The Dyspeptic to His Stomach", Wee Tibbie's Garland, James McGeachy & Co. (1888):
For dinner, mutton-chop or steak,
An' yet, for a', I'm lean's a rake,
Kyte-clung as ony reestit herrin',
A 'natomy for folks to stare on.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)