hunger
/ˈhɐŋɡə/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.10 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I have a hunger to win."
- "O sacred hunger of ambitious minds!"
- "When gangsters bump my shit, can they feel my hunger?"
- "Putin's unwillingness to declare another partial reserve call up has created a wider manpower hunger in the Russian military and border service, and Putin alone maintains the ability to remedy this issue."
- "Therefore if thine enemie hunger, feed him: if he thirst, giue him drink. For in so doing thou shalt heape coales of fire on his head."
- "I hungered for your love."
Etymology
From Middle English hunger, from Old English hungor (“hunger, desire; famine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz, *hunhruz (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *kenk- (“to burn, smart, desire, hunger, thirst”). Cognate with West Frisian honger, hûnger (“hunger”), Dutch honger (“hunger”), German Low German Hunger (“hunger”), German Hunger (“hunger”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish hunger (“hunger”), Faroese and Icelandic hungur (“hunger”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: hunger, hungor, *hungr, *hungruz, *kenk-, hungren
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈhɐŋɡə/
- British English: /ˈhʌŋɡə/