Esurient
Origin
From Latin esurire ("hungry, desiderative verb"), from edÅ ("to eat"). Etymological twin to edacious ("voracious, ravenous").
Full definition of esurient
Adjective
esurient
- Very hungry or greedy; ravenous.
- CarlylePoor, 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 ….
- avid