sharp-set

American  

[shahrp-set] / ˈʃɑrpˌsɛt /

adjective

1. eager to satisfy the appetite, especially for food.

2. keen or eager.

3. set to present a sharply angled edge.

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sharp-set British  

adjective

1. set to give an acute cutting angle

2. keenly hungry

3. keen or eager

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Other Word Forms

• sharp-setness noun

Etymology

Origin of sharp-set

First recorded in 1530–40

Example Sentences

But with never a halt we went on our way, sharp-set to reach Edinburgh.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

She thought they had lost caste in his eyes; but Phillis, who was shrewd and sharp-set in her wits, read him more truly.

From Not Like Other Girls by Carey, Rosa Nouchette

This pleases you, and you step about the place and come in sharp-set for breakfast.

From Deep Moat Grange by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

But once the breakfast-things cleared away, he found Stair as sharp-set as a terrier at a rat-hole, as it were, nosing after knowledge.

From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

With appetites sharp-set by long hours of hard labor they ate heartily; then, in the deepening twilight, they sat and talked in comradely fashion while Stevens smoked one precious cigarette.

From Spacehounds of IPC by Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)