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devourer

noun

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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: Inherited from Middle English devourere; equivalent to devour + -er.

  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 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.