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STARVELING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does starveling mean?
• STARVELING (noun)
The noun STARVELING has 1 sense:
1. someone who is starving (or being starved)
Familiarity information: STARVELING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who is starving (or being starved)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("starveling" is a kind of...):
pauper (a person who is very poor)
Context examples
Poor little starveling!
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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