to be greedy, hungry
to be greedy or hungry, Ar. Ec. 1179 (lyr.), Herod. 6.97; cf. λαιμώσσω.
The corpus record
λαιμ-άσσω
laimasso
to be greedy
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.