| 单词 | dogged hunger |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdogged hunger b. Greedy, voracious, ravenous; = canine adj. 1b. Esp. in dogged appetite, †dogged hunger. Also in figurative contexts. Now rare.In later use perhaps overlapping with sense A. 1d.Cf. dog appetite n., dog hunger n. at dog n.1 Compounds 3a. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered nutrition > [noun] > excessive hunger bulimiaa1398 dog's hunger1592 dogged hunger1599 dog hunger1605 canine appetite1609 dog appetite1615 doggish appetitea1620 ox-hunger1623 polyphagia1693 adephagia1753 polyphagy1802 hyperphagia1941 1599 J. Rainolds Overthrow Stage-playes 46 Your stomake was sick of that hunger, which for an inordinate appetite it breedeth, Physicians call the dogged appetite: more greedily disposed to deuoure and swallow vp all that it mett with, then able to concoct or to retaine well ought that it had taken. 1632 J. Vicars tr. Virgil XII Aeneids vi. 168 And through his treble throat it quickly snaps, In dogged-hunger, with his meager chaps. 1661 Manes Presbyteriani 2 Your appetite is not so fierce, nor your stomach so dogged as before. 1844 Monthly Rev. July 315 On these he feeds with the same dogged appetite as he does in England. 1917 C. M. Lowe Confessions Social Secretary 241 This time her patience got the better of her in the face of a dogged appetite. The appetite belonged to her guest of honor. 1985 Theatre Jrnl. 37 97 We might say that he is an Identity, his dogged appetite the guarantee of a certain predictable mirth. < as lemmas |
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