esurient
/ɪˈsjʊərɪənt
/ /ɛˈsjʊərɪənt/adjective archaic or humorous
Hungry or greedy.In Masson's metamorphosis of image and reality in Pygmalion, the sculpture on the right becomes the esurient monster at the table; indeed, it becomes the table itself, devouring its contents....
- Outside the Hungry Pilgrim restaurant stood an examplar of esurient puritanism dressed in a black-and-white Cromwellian costume with hair in a pigtail.
Derivatives
esuriently
- He grins sheepishly, then eyes everyone else's meals esuriently.
Origin
Late 17th century: from Latin esurient- 'being hungry', from the verb esurire, from esse 'eat'.