Hunger pangs

Bear hunger is the slang term for very hungry. The term is derived from the observation that bears sometimes lick their paws. Because bears can hibernate , it was previously believed that they could suck food from their paws because their paws became covered in milky foam by saliva. The proverb hunger paws arose in the same context .

Individual evidence

↑ Duden | Hunger pangs | Spelling, meaning, definition, synonyms. Retrieved November 6, 2017 .
↑ Abroad: Weekly for country u. Ethnology . Cotta, 1830, p. 1119 ( google.de [accessed on November 6, 2017]).
↑ An attempt to correctly identify some synonymous words in the German language . Strauss, 1772 ( google.de [accessed November 6, 2017]).
↑ Werner Scholze-Stubenrecht, Wolfgang Worsch: Turnings: Dictionary of German Idiomatics . Bibliographisches Institut GmbH, 2015, ISBN 978-3-411-91128-8 ( google.de [accessed on November 6, 2017]).

[1] Duden | Hunger pangs | Spelling, meaning, definition, synonyms. Retrieved November 6, 2017 .

[2] Abroad: Weekly for country u. Ethnology . Cotta, 1830, p. 1119 ( google.de [accessed on November 6, 2017]).

[3] An attempt to correctly identify some synonymous words in the German language . Strauss, 1772 ( google.de [accessed November 6, 2017]).

[4] Werner Scholze-Stubenrecht, Wolfgang Worsch: Turnings: Dictionary of German Idiomatics . Bibliographisches Institut GmbH, 2015, ISBN 978-3-411-91128-8 ( google.de [accessed on November 6, 2017]).