Both Uses of
famished
in
Cyrano de Bergerac
- FIRST POET: See how this gingerbread woos the famished rhymer with its almond eyes, and its eyebrows of angelica!†
Act 2
- ROXANE: But your camp air is keen; I myself am famished.†
Act 4 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(famished) extremely hungry
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, famished can refer to a need for something other than food -- such as famished for news.