Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Eating all kinds of food; omnivorous; pamphagous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Eating all kinds of food.
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- adjective Eating all kinds of
food .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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Examples
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George Harvey, a patron of the dramas of Charles Rann Kennedy, a spanker of children, an entertainer at his board of the visiting clergyman, a pantophagous subscriber, a silk hat wearer -- in brief, a leading citizen.
Europe After 8:15 George Jean Nathan 1920
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He refused to eat, in fact, and remembering what Peter had once said about my first-born being pantophagous, I began to suspect that I had a very sick boy on my hands.
The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912
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