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bloodthirster

bloodthirster noun: a person who is bloodthirsty.

Noun

bloodthirster (plural bloodthirsters)

  1. A person who is bloodthirsty.
    • The Thermidorian majority disparaged the authoritarian revolutionary government and referred to the sans-culottes as "cannibals" and "bloodthirsters" for conspiring with the Jacobin "despots" in terrorizing middle-class citizens of both sexes, the honnêtes gens.1980, Carol R. Berkin, Women, War, and Revolution, page 128

Forms of bloodthirster

pluralbloodthirsters

Origin of bloodthirster

From blood + thirster.

Questions about bloodthirster

What does bloodthirster mean?
Bloodthirster means a person who is bloodthirsty.
What part of speech is bloodthirster?
Bloodthirster is a noun.
What is the plural of bloodthirster?
The plural of bloodthirster is bloodthirsters.

Words near bloodthirster in the dictionary

  1. bloodswaps
  2. Bloodsworth
  3. Bloodsworths
  4. bloodtest
  5. bloodthirst
  6. bloodthirster
  7. bloodthirsters
  8. bloodthirstier
  9. bloodthirstiest
  10. bloodthirstily
  11. bloodthirstiness

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