单词 | starver |
释义 | starvern. 1. A person who or thing which starves others (in various senses of the verb). a. A person who or thing which causes starvation. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > hunger > [noun] > starvation or action of starving > one who causes starvation famisher1553 starver1576 1576 R. Robinson tr. F. Patrizi Moral Methode Ciuile Policie iv. f. 40v The couetous man..always is found a steruer of him selfe, an oppressor of his owne nature, is alwayes hungrye, alway thirstye, and continually vexed with an insaciable gredye desire. 1622 W. Ames Reply Dr. Mortons Gen. Def. v. 83 Darest thou..hinder so many able men from preaching? thou that professest the flocke must bee fed, doest thou thrust out feeders, and keep in starvers? 1667 J. Raymond Folly in Print 16 This six months have I longed, Now 'Ile be mine own carver: For one poor man Do what he can, Will only be my starver. 1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists ii. iv. 118 The Brain certainly is a great Starver, where it abounds. 1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists ii. iv. 119 What shall we say of our..Dancers, Tennis-players, and such like? 'Tis the Body surely is the Starver here: and if the Brain were such a terrible Devourer in the other way [etc.]. 1792 J. Harrison Let. to H. Dundas 29 Wicked Ministers and Secretaries of State would be unclean, evil, lying spirits, in the form of frogs; deceivers of the people..; starvers of the poor. 1859 J. S. Mill On Liberty iii. 100 An opinion that corn-dealers are starvers of the poor..may justly incur punishment when delivered orally to an excited mob. 1870 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Dec. 2 Should the Germans be hemmed in and their communications cut, the starver may become the starved. 1900 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 May 2/2 Mr. Rees's intention is to counteract the theory that British rule is the real starver of India. 1964 Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 21 Oct. a44/1 Despite efforts over a period of three decades to paint him as a cramped reactionary and a starver of children, Herbert Clark Hoover died this week a respected and admired American. 2007 Star Beacon (Ashtabula, Ohio) 4 Dec. a4/3 Robert Mugabe, the terrorizer and starver of his people in Zimbabwe. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > cooling agent or appliance > [noun] > that which numbs or kills with cold starver1843 1843 T. Hood Forge in New Monthly Mag. July 291 Flapping his arms to keep him warm, For the breeze from the North is a regular starver. 2. A person who or animal which suffers from starvation. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > hunger > [noun] > starvation or action of starving > one who suffers starvation starveling1546 meat failer1599 starver1683 breadless1839 1683 R. Dixon Canidia 53 But that for them, you must be Starvers, You shall not be your own Carvers. 1710 Coll. Poems for & against Dr. Sacheverell 19 Some were wretched poor Curs, Mungrel Starvers and Setters. 1794 J. Byng Diary 4 June in Torrington Diaries (1938) IV. 49 The starvers of the town are to peep down without hope upon the blazing displays of cookery. 1839 T. Hood Fugitive Lines on Pawning Watch vii, in Hood's Own 234 So long I have wander'd a starver, I'm getting as keen as a hawk. 1897 R. D. Blackmore Dariel xlvii. 425 The unfortunate starver..tore the cake from Cator. 1922 ‘J. North’ Black Opal 35 That's the place they sends orf ther starvers to in drought time. 1975 Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wisconsin) 28 May c5/1 It's a 16-year-old starver. The girl is skinny as a rat. 2014 Daily Mirror (Nexis) 28 July 26 Eating disorders could be treated by targeting a set of brain cells that turn us into gorgers or starvers. 3. Australian slang. A saveloy. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > sausage > [noun] > types of sausage franchemyle1381 herbelade?c1390 haggisc1400 black puddinga1450 blood puddingc1450 bloodinga1500 liveringa1500 haggis pudding1545 white pudding1578 swine's pudding1579 hog's pudding1583 Bolognian sausage1596 bloodling1598 andouille1605 andouillet1611 cervelat1613 mortadella1613 polony1654 blacking1674 hacking1674 whiting1674 Oxford sausagec1700 saucisson1772 German sausage1773 saveloy1784 blood sausage1799 white hawse1819 liver sausage1820 black pot1825 chipolata1830 Bologna sausage1833 butifarra1836 mettwurst1836 Cambridge sausage1840 boudin1845 chorizo1846 German1847 liverwurst1852 salami1852 station-Jack1853 leberwurst1855 wurst1855 blutwurst1856 bag of mystery1864 Vienna sausage1865 summer sausage1874 wienerwurst1875 mealy pudding1880 whitepot1880 wiener1880 erbswurst1885 pepperoni1888 mystery bag1889 red-hot1890 weenie1891 hot dog1892 frankfurter1894 sav?1894 Coney Island1895 coney1902 garlic sausage1905 boloney1907 kishke1907 drisheen1910 bratwurst1911 banger1919 cocktail sausage1927 boerewors1930 soy sausage1933 thuringer1933 frank1936 fish sausage1937 knackwurst1939 foot-long1941 starver1941 soya sausage1943 soysage1943 soya link1944 brat1949 Vienna1952 kielbasa1953 Coney dog1954 tube steak1963 Weisswurst1963 Cumberland sausage1966 merguez1966 tripe sausage1966 schinkenwurst1967 boerie1981 'nduja1996 1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 71 Starver, a saveloy. 1959 D. Niland Big Smoke 211 I know what the things I eat cost me. Starvers, crumpets, stale cakes, speckled fruit, pies. 1981 P. Radley Jack Rivers & Me 154 Indian dicks (thin sausages), thick-dick saveloys (called starvers in the Depression), and much grog. 2002 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 20 Feb. 13 And frankfurts—they're now cocktail frankfurts—they were savs or I've even heard them called starvers or little boys, but we used to call them cheerios. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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