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  • This is when you're way past hungry and into hongry land.

    April 1, 2008

  • madeupicals are such a playupical hongry fun.

    April 1, 2008

  • Is it hungrier than "starving"?

    April 1, 2008

  • I love it - it expresses a deep inner emptiness with that 'o'.

    April 1, 2008

  • Is hongriness caused by honger?

    April 1, 2008

  • Oh, my love, my darling,

    I've hongered for your touch

    a long, lonely time.

    - Unchained Melody (popular song)

    The longer the honger, the hongrier the longer.

    April 1, 2008

  • Ha, ha, perfect yarb!

    April 1, 2008

  • :-D

    April 1, 2008

  • responding to yarb's first comment: that's exactly why I put it on the list I did. :)

    "In touch with the ground

    I'm on the hunt, I'm after you

    Scent and a sound, I'm lost and I'm found

    And I'm hongry like the wolf..."

    --Duran Duran, "Hongry Like the Wolf"

    "One look at you and I can't disguise

    I've got hongry eyes..."

    --Eric Carmen, "Hongry Eyes"

    (a song I hate because the lyricist apparently doesn't understand that objects of prepositions must be in objective case...)

    "Everybody's got a hongry heart..."

    --Bruce Springsteen

    April 1, 2008

  • "Okh," grumbled Van, "my kneecaps! That bench was cruel. And I am hongry."

    - Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor.

    May 17, 2008

  • Way past peckish, hongry is an awnry hunger for a hang sangich.

    May 20, 2008