noun
hunger and cold; privation
Literary or formal term for the combined hardship of hunger and cold, often implying poverty or destitution.
難民たちは飢寒に苦しんでいた。
The refugees were suffering from hunger and cold.
Compound of 飢 (hunger) and 寒 (cold). The exact historical derivation is uncertain; the spelling is conventionally associated with the combined hardship.