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Discover LudwigThe phrase "hungry hungry" is not correct and would not typically be used in written English.
It is likely a mistake or a repetition error. However, the phrase "hungry for" is a more commonly used phrase and can be used in written English as follows: Example: She was always hungry for adventure, so she jumped at the chance to go hiking in the remote mountains.
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NEWARK "The Hungry Hungry Games: A Parody".
Yet once she decided to do it, she was "hungry, hungry, hungry".
In 1978 a Hungry Hungry Hippos game cost $7.44.
But y'all are making me hungry!"—hungry for lunch and, I hope, hungry for learning.
"The Hungry Hungry Games: A Parody," sketch comedy by Jim Millan.
He especially remembers the commercials, particularly one for a children's game called "Hungry Hungry Hippos".
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While I was pondering the second batch, the triathletes arrived, and they were hungry — hungrier, I imagined, than I'd ever been or would be in my entire life.
Growing up middle class in the '70s and '80s in Durham, N.C., she ducked and covered, Hungry-Hungry-Hippoed, cherished her Izods and endured her parents' divorce.
The word, which was later included in the Collins English Dictionary, is credited as being popularized by the show, principally following its usage in the season twelve episode "Hungry, Hungry Homer".
Pittsburgh is hungry -- very hungry.
I remember being hungry — so hungry.
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