Word Meanings - BELLY-PINCHED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pinched with hunger; starved. "The belly-pinched wolf." Shak.

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• PINCHBECK
  An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling gold; a yellow metal, composed of about three ounces of zinc to a pound of copper. It is much used as an imitation of gold in the manufacture of cheap jewelry.
• HUNGERER
  One who hungers; one who longs. Lamb.
• PINCHFIST
  A closefisted person; a miser.
• STARVELING
  One who, or that which, pines from lack or food, or nutriment. Old Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no starveling. Shak.
• PINCHER
  One who, or that which, pinches.
• STARVEDLY
  In the condition of one starved or starving; parsimoniously. Some boasting housekeeper which keepth open doors for one day, . . . and lives starvedly all the year after. Bp. Hall.
• HUNGER
  & OHG. hungar, G. hunger, Icel. hungr, Sw. & Dan. hunger, Goth. h 1. An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food. Note: The sensation of hunger is usually referred to the stomach, but is probably
• BELLYCHEER
  Good cheer; viands. "Bellycheer and banquets." Rowlands. "Loaves and bellycheer." Milton.
• BELLYBAND
  A band of canvas, to strengthen a sail. (more info) 1. A band that passes under the belly of a horse and holds the saddle or harness in place; a girth. 2. A band of flannel or other cloth about the belly.
• STARVATION
  The act of starving, or the state of being starved. Note: This word was first used, according to Horace Walpole, by Henry Dundas, the first Lord Melville, in a speech on American affairs in 1775, which obtained for him the nickname of Starvation
• STARVE
  In hot coals he hath himself raked . . . Thus starved this worthy mighty Hercules. Chaucer. 2. To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent. Sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed. Pope. 3. To perish or die
• BELLYFUL
  As much as satisfies the appetite. Hence: A great abundance; more than enough. Lloyd. King James told his son that he would have his bellyful of parliamentary impeachments. Johnson.
• HUNGER-BIT; HUNGER-BITTEN
  Pinched or weakened by hunger. Milton.
• PINCHING
  Compressing; nipping; griping; niggardly; as, pinching cold; a pinching parsimony. Pinching bar, a pinch bar. See Pinch, n., 4. -- Pinching nut, a check nut. See under Check, n.
• PINCHPENNY
  A miserly person.
• PINCH
  1. To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies. 2. o seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals. He pinched and
• BELLY
  The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back. Belly doublet, a doublet of the 16th century, hanging down so as to cover the belly. Shak. -- Belly fretting, the chafing of a horse's belly with a girth. Johnson.
• PINCHCOCK
  A clamp on a flexible pipe to regulate the flow of a fluid through the pipe.
• BELLYCHEAT
  An apron or covering for the front of the person. Beau. & Fl.
• HUNGERED
  Hungry; pinched for food. Milton.
• BEPINCH
  To pinch, or mark with pinches. Chapman.
• REDBELLY
  The char.
• ANHUNGERED
  Ahungered; longing.
• POT-BELLY
  A protuberant belly.
• WIT-STARVED
  Barren of wit; destitute of genius. Examiner.