devourer
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 8
Definition of devourer
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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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 blood […]”
“[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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English devourere; equivalent to devour + -er.
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