devourer
One who devours.
Noun
- One who devours.
- It is doubtful, whether we ought to ascribe any superior qualities to the more ancient Africans; for we find them represented […] as proud, lazy, deceitful, thievish, […] devourers of human flesh, and quaffers of human...
- [They] have entered into the hunt with all the zeal that characterized the bookhunters, the coin collectors, the autograph devourers and the rest of that class of maniacs. - 1864, Frank Leslie's Ten Cent Monthly,...
Origin
Inherited from Middle English devourere; equivalent to devour + -er.