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foul feeders

foul feeders is the plural of foul feeder.

Meaning of foul feeder

Noun

foul feeder (plural foul feeders)

  1. An animal that feeds on carrion or the like; a scavenger.
    • "He's a foul feeder, is Mr. Malone, a carrion eater, like all of his kind[.]"1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
  2. (obsolete) A horse that has bad eating habits.

Questions about foul feeders

What is foul feeders the plural of?
Foul feeders is the plural of foul feeder.

Words near foul feeders in the dictionary

  1. foul berth
  2. foul berths
  3. foul bill of health
  4. foul bills of health
  5. foul feeder
  6. foul feeders
  7. foul fish
  8. foul language
  9. foul line
  10. foul lines
  11. foul madames

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