also: とうだい
noun
privation; hardship from cold and hunger
Literary or classical term for suffering from cold and starvation; rarely used in modern everyday speech.
古文書には、凍餒に苦しむ民の様子が記されている。
Ancient documents describe the plight of people suffering from cold and hunger.
Compound of 凍 (freeze, cold) and 餒 (hunger, starvation). The exact historical derivation is uncertain; it appears in classical Chinese and was adopted into literary Japanese.