| 单词 | heart hunger |
| 释义 | > as lemmasheart hunger heart hunger n. (a) Scottish extreme physical hunger (cf. sense A. 4); (b) heartfelt longing or yearning. Sc. National Dict. (at Hert) records sense (a) as still in use in north-eastern Scotland and Argyllshire in 1957. ΚΠ 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Heart-hunger, a ravenous desire of food. 1842 F. Chamier Passion & Princ. II. xviii. 217 She would..yearn, with all the heart-hunger of other days, to be once more beside him. 1892 G. E. Woodberry in C. Lamb Ess. Elia (new ed.) Introd. p. xiii That mournful fancy, that affection for things unrealized, which betray heart-hunger. 2006 M. E. Snodgrass Encycl. Feminist Lit. 172/1 A less amenable character, the rebellious, bookish Maggie Tulliver.., exhibits the heart hunger for affection and validation. < as lemmas |
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