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名詞

devourer (複数形 devourers)

1. One who devours.
   • 1774, Edward Long, The History of Jamaica, page 354:

     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 […]

   • 1864, Frank Leslie's Ten Cent Monthly (volumes 1-2, page 305)

     [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.

アナグラム

• overrude