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Word of the Day: Famished
Have you ever felt hungry?
I suppose that is a stupid question, so let me put it in perspective.
Have you ever been so hungry you could eat a horse, hooves and all?
If you have, then you, my friend, have been famished.
If you look up the word famished in a dictionary, it will tell you the meaning is extremely hungry.
That, to me, makes being famished sound very dull.
It should be so much more than that.
As many of you know, I used to be a construction worker, a roofer, actually.
In a former life, before discovering the joys of teaching English, I lived in northeastern Canada, where the winters are pretty harsh.
Therefore, once summer arrived, we had to make hay while the sun shined.
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For weeks on end, I would begin work at 6:00 am and not finish until after sunset at around 9:00 pm – 9:30 pm.
Then, we had to go back to the warehouse to unload the trucks and reload them for the next day.
When my late father and I got home around 11:00 pm, we were both famished.
After going almost eleven hours without anything to eat and working hard all the time, it’s a wonder we never ate one of our co-workers.
We were hungry enough to eat a horse, but an old, grizzled, stinky construction worker was just not appetizing.
So, whenever you’ve been working or playing hard all day, and you feel hungry enough to eat a miniature horse or a roofer, head home and have a hearty meal immediately.
You are famished.
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