devourer

One who devours.

Noun

  1. 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.

Forms

devourers

Related

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