starveling

noun

1. One who is thin from lack of food.

   “If I hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows; for if I hang, old Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no starveling.”

   “The lean, drawn starvelings in their dream-stupefied state were jealous of my well filled out, prosperous form.”

adj

1. Starving; suffering from starvation.

   “As for the starveling rebels of our region, they soon began to reappear in town, more starved and abject, their blackened rags hanging on them[…]”

2. Meagre; scanty.

   “[A] few meetings in the cape-broom, a starveling allowance of kisses in a very ill-advised publicity.”