sharp-set

Eager in appetite or desire of gratification; ravenous.

Adjective

  1. Eager in appetite or desire of gratification; ravenous.
    • an eagle or a lion sharp-set
    • December 7, 1711, Henry Cromwell, letter to Alexander Pope The town is sharp-set on new plays.
    • "Are ye sharp-set?" he asked, glancing at about the level of my knee. "Ye can eat that drop parritch." - 1880, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped:

Forms

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