starveling

1. 1.

   someone who is starving (or being starved)

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Other forms of starveling

plural

starvelings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about starveling

What does starveling mean?

starveling means "someone who is starving (or being starved)".

How many syllables are in starveling?

starveling has 3 syllables and divides as star-ve-ling under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.