Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pinched with hunger; starved: as, “the belly-pinched wolf,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pinched with hunger; starved.
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Examples
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Plenty to eat and drink -- yes, but milk does not taste the same when you can go and drink all you want from a saucer; it has to be stolen out of a tin pail when you are belly-pinched with hunger and thirst, or it does not have the tang -- it isn't milk.
Animal Heroes Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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We felt a good deal like "belly-pinched wolves," but we had no den in which we could "keep the fur dry."
Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 Jacob Dolson Cox 1864
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