omophagia

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Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
19
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/əʊməˈfeɪd͡ʒɪə/

Definition of omophagia

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. The eating of raw food, especially raw flesh.
    “Omophagia, that’s it! Do you like that word? Take it away with you!”
    “Uncomfortably, I thought of the Bacchae: hooves and bloody ribs, scraps dangling from the fir trees. There was a word for it in Greek: omophagia.”

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὠμοφαγία (ōmophagía), from ὠμός (ōmós, “raw”) (see omo-) + -φαγία (-phagía) (see -phagia for more). By surface analysis, omo- (“raw, uncooked”) + -phagia.

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