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omophagia

/əʊməˈfeɪd͡ʒɪə/

omophagia noun: the eating of raw food, especially raw flesh.

Noun

omophagia (plural omophagias)

  1. The eating of raw food, especially raw flesh.
    • Omophagia, that’s it! Do you like that word? Take it away with you!1936, Henry Miller, “Megalopolitan Maniac”, in Black Spring, Paris: The Obelisk Press […], →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, 1963, →ISBN, page 138
    • Uncomfortably, I thought of the Bacchae: hooves and bloody ribs, scraps dangling from the fir trees. There was a word for it in Greek: omophagia.1992, Donna Tartt, The Secret History

Forms of omophagia

pluralomophagias

Origin of omophagia

From Ancient Greek ὠμοφαγία (ōmophagía), from ὠμός (ōmós, “raw”) (see omo-) + -φαγία (-phagía) (see -phagia for more). By surface analysis, omo- (“raw, uncooked”) + -phagia.

Words that rhyme with omophagia

Questions about omophagia

What does omophagia mean?
Omophagia means the eating of raw food, especially raw flesh.
What part of speech is omophagia?
Omophagia is a noun.
How do you pronounce omophagia?
Omophagia is pronounced /əʊməˈfeɪd͡ʒɪə/.
What is the plural of omophagia?
The plural of omophagia is omophagias.

Words near omophagia in the dictionary

  1. omomyiforms
  2. omomyine
  3. omomyines
  4. OMON
  5. Omonoia
  6. omophagia
  7. omophagias
  8. omophagic
  9. omophagies
  10. omophagist
  11. omophagists

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