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Definition of Empty-bellied
1. Adjective. Needing nourishment. "Empty-bellied children"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Empty-bellied
Literary usage of Empty-bellied
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin (1876)
"No, there is nothing a'bout vegetables in the word Bulimus ; but ' empty-bellied'
generally is hungry, and hungry generally eats a great deal when ..."
2. The Complete Works by John Ruskin (1894)
"Now these ' Bulimi' eat a great deal, (of vegetables, it happens), so I suppose
some one who named them thought they must be very hungry or ' empty-bellied. ..."
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