voracious

adj

Etymology: From Latin vorāx, from vorō (“to devour”).

1. Wanting or devouring great quantities of food.

   “He is voracious by suppertime.”

   “His appetite is voracious by suppertime.”

2. Having a great appetite for anything; eager.

   “a voracious reader”

   “If he carried chiefly his appetite, a zeal for tiled bathrooms, a conviction that the Pullman car is the acme of human comfort, and a belief that it is proper to tip waiters, taxicab drivers, and barbers, but under no circumstances station agents and ushers, then his Odyssey will be replete with good meals and bad meals, bathing adventures, compartment-train escapades, and voracious demands for money.”