The Collaborative International Dictionary
empty-bellied
empty-bellied \empty-bellied\ adj. needing nourishment; hungry; as, empty-bellied children.
WordNet
empty-bellied
adj. needing nourishment; "after skipped lunch the men were empty by suppertime"; "empty-bellied children" [syn: empty]
Usage examples of "empty-bellied".
Weak-eyed and ill equipped as I was for any more ambitious or venturesome occupations, I could have drudged away an uneventful but never empty-bellied life as a real mole of a quarrier.
The two figures sprawled on the rock ledge dragged their sheltering skin over their heads and dreamed, empty-bellied, with their faces buried in their folded arms.
His buttocks slid back over the horse's rump, legs trailing helpless, and his weight fell free in an empty-bellied plunge.