esurient

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēsuriens, present participle of ēsuriō (“to want to eat; to be hungry”), desiderative verb from edō (“to eat”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˈsʊɹi.ənt/, /ɪˈzʊɹi.ənt/

Adjective

esurient (comparative more esurient, superlative most esurient)

1. Very hungry or greedy; ravenous.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bailey to this entry?)

   • Carlyle

     Poor, but esurient.

   • 1983, Alasdair Gray, ‘Logopandocy’, Canongate 2012 (Every Short Story 1951-2012), p. 177:

     I answered that such freedom would be worse than the vilest slavery, for it would leave me free to do nothing but grappel till death with clusterfist creditors and esurient Kirkists […].

2. Avid.

Noun

esurient (plural esurients)

1. One who is hungry or greedy.
   • Wood

     An insatiable esurient after riches.

Anagrams

• Turinese, neurites, retinues, reunites, unitrees

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eːˈsu.ri.ent/, [eːˈsʊ.ri.ɛnt]

Verb

ēsurient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of ēsuriō