to be very hungry, feeling very hungry

correspondence

be extremely poor

keep up active or brisk correspondence, send letters or petitions, etc.

indulge in speculation, imagine, let thoughts roam

become pregnant, food to get into the stomach

exercise one's mind, think

keep up active or brisk correspondence, send letters or petitions, etc.

be precocious

to imagine, guess, speculate

cheat, fool, spin a yarn

have bread in the belly

be convulsed with laughter, have a twisting pain in stomach due to hunger

(of children) have bellyache due to constipation

be precocious, show certain signs of cleverness at an early age (said of a clever boy)

rumbling of the stomach

be very sly

be naughtier than usual, be more wicked than appear

an imaginary player in a children's game

stomach upset, indigestion