Crossword clues for starveling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Starveling \Starve"ling\ (st[aum]rv"l[i^]ng), n. [Starve + -ling.] One who, or that which, pines from lack of food, or nutriment.
Old Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no
starveling.
--Shak.
Starveling \Starve"ling\, a. Hungry; lean; pining with want.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"starving or starved person," 1540s, from starve (v.) + diminutive suffix -ling. As an adjective, "weak from hunger," from 1590s.
Wiktionary
n. One who is thin from lack of food.
WordNet
n. someone who is starving (or being starved)
Usage examples of "starveling".
Starveling Cult under its illustrious leader, the Archimandrite Luseferous.
Radegonde de la Cockaigne, Kokudza, the Starveling, and Little Tommy Redcap.
September morning, his hair dressed in the latest fashion, the finest Mechlin lace around his wrists, playing a final game of piquet with his younger brother, as the tumbril bore them along through the hooting, yelling crowd of the half-naked starvelings of Paris.
Besides Tatterwag, they were Sparrowgrass, Drumbelo, the Starveling, and Xylia of Arcadia.
In no time at all, the stiff barbs of his minuscule feathers broke through their pale blue quillskins, and Pacheco found himself feeding a greedy, plump fluffball instead of a naked starveling.
Sister Mary Joseph rose from her crouch behind the cabin door and began to move among the starvelings, each of whom had a piece of sticking plaster stuck to his or her forehead, just below the line of the hair long since turned to an ocher red by anemia.
Too cold to stop the fangs of her starvelings, gnawing at her own exhausted flesh.
No fresh metal in her belly, her poor starvelings had been consuming her.
Maybe only someone who as a child had never been certain whether there would be a next meal would have noticed the difference, but Alberich had learned early which were the well-fed children (and thus, dangerous, for they could bully him with impunity) and which the starvelings like himself (which he could defend himself against without fear of retribution).
We convince them that they live better as Uldra mounts than as starvelings running naked across the desert, and better still as Outker house servants.
Stuck on a dreary planet as guardsman and executioner of homesick starvelings poisoned by radioactivity.
The robot tanks began their crawl across the sand, followed by the thousands of starvelings desperate to follow them to food.
At length, two or possibly three small rapid-moving yelks would emerge from throat or anus, to face the starveling world oubide.