Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hungry gap

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.16 in modern English

Syllables: hun-gry -gap
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The interval in early spring (approximately from March to May in the Northern Hemisphere) during which the remaining stores of the previous year’s winter vegetables are depleted, yet the forthcoming season’s summer crops have not yet reached harvest maturity, resulting in a temporary scarcity of fresh food resources.

Example Sentences

"At the very end of the Middle Ages, Breughel depicted country folk wrapped up in fits of mass hysteria, and the historical accounts of these rural frenzies have explained the delirium in terms of the slender diet on which the poor had to subsist during the hungry gap."

Inflected Forms

hungry gaps (plural)

Questions

What does hungry gap mean?: The interval in early spring (approximately from March to May in the Northern Hemisphere) during which the remaining stores of the previous year’s winter vegetables are depleted, yet the forthcoming season’s summer crops have not yet reached harvest maturity, resulting in a temporary scarcity of fresh food resources.

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