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anthropophaginian

anthropophaginian noun: one who eats human flesh.

Noun

anthropophaginian (plural anthropophaginians)

  1. (humorous, rare) One who eats human flesh.
    • Host: […] go, knock / and call: hee’l speake like an Anthropophaginian vnto / thee: Knocke I say.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    • The awful distich put into the mouth of the Jette or Ettin, the principal agent in this romance, 'Snouk but, snouk ben, I find the smell of earthly men,” is scarcely inferior to the 'fee faw fum' of the keen-scented anthropophaginian of the other.1819, The Quarterly Review, page 106

Forms of anthropophaginian

pluralanthropophaginians

Questions about anthropophaginian

What does anthropophaginian mean?
Anthropophaginian means one who eats human flesh.
What part of speech is anthropophaginian?
Anthropophaginian is a noun.
What is the plural of anthropophaginian?
The plural of anthropophaginian is anthropophaginians.

Words near anthropophaginian in the dictionary

  1. anthropopeia
  2. anthropophagi
  3. anthropophagic
  4. anthropophagical
  5. anthropophagies
  6. anthropophaginian
  7. anthropophaginians
  8. anthropophagism
  9. anthropophagist
  10. anthropophagistic
  11. anthropophagists

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