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单词 starver
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starvern.

Brit. /ˈstɑːvə/, U.S. /ˈstɑrvər/
Forms: see starve v. and -er suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: starve v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < starve v. + -er suffix1. With sense 2 compare earlier starveling n.
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.
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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.
b. A thing that kills or numbs with cold. Cf. starve v. 8. Obsolete. rare.
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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.
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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.
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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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