/hónggri, hóhnggri/ [Atlantic; by shift of syntactic category] n. hunger: 1918 He couldn' bear no hongree no more (Parsons 27). 1936 If hungry ever hit muh. . . (Dupuch 16). Hungry killing me—I dying for hungry! (Nassau). cf. HONGRY (Black)

—v. [from the general tendency of Cr. adj. to become v. under influenced of African syntax] to be hungry: He gotty hungry. (Andros). I did hungry today (Andros).