Noun

(en noun)

A sensation of being gnawed

* {{quote-book, year=1836, author=American Anti-Slavery Society, title=The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The spirit of slavery raves under tormenting gnawings , and casts about in blind phrenzy for something to ease, or even to mock them. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1893, author=Marietta Holley, title=Samantha at the World's Fair, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage="If I made them suffer the pains of exile, I would not let them endure also the gnawings of starvation. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1917, author=Julian Street, title=American Adventures, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=But from the time we returned from our first journey, after having spent some months in trying, as some one put it, to "discover America," I felt the gnawings of excited appetite. }}