Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which eats all kinds of food, or is omnivorous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A person or an animal that has the habit of eating all kinds of food.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who eats all kinds of
food .
Etymologies
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See pantophagous and -ist.
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Examples
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Santley was a true pantophagist, but he was worsted in his first encounter with the American oyster: "I had often heard of the celebrated American oyster, which half a dozen people had tried to swallow without success, and was anxious to learn if the story were founded on fact.
The Merry-Go-Round Carl Van Vechten 1922
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