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- 1. very hungry: dated "‘Go to your supper. I venture you're pretty sharp-set.’"
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Sharp-set is an archaic adjective that means eager in appetite or desire. Learn more about its word history, usage, and examples from the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
Sharp-set definition: eager to satisfy the appetite, especially for food.. See examples of SHARP-SET used in a sentence.
3 meanings: 1. set to give an acute cutting angle 2. keenly hungry 3. keen or eager.... Click for more definitions.
Definitions of sharp-set. adjective. extremely hungry. synonyms: esurient, famished, ravenous, starved. hungry. feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food.
sharp - set ( comparative more sharp-set, superlative most sharp-set) ( dated, idiomatic) eager in appetite or desire of gratification; ravenous. an eagle or a lion sharp-set.
1. having a keen desire or appetite, as for food. 2. set so as to be sharp or at an acute angle. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved. sharp-set in American English. (ˈʃɑːrpˌset) adjective. 1. eager to satisfy the appetite, esp. for food. 2. keen or eager. 3.
I venture you're pretty sharp-set.’ More example sentences When will he appear from the swamp and swallow up her nakedness hungrily, sharp-set, to rid the world of the dirt that we sweep under the carpet to repress.
