Brewer's: Mastic

A tonic which promotes appetite, and therefore only increases the misery of a hungry man.

Like the starved wretch that hungry mastic chews, But cheats himself and fosters his disease.

West: Triumphs of the Gout (Lucian).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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