Trencher-man \Trench"er-man\, n.; pl. Trencher-men.
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1. A feeder; a great eater; a gormandizer. --Shak.
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2. A cook. [Obs.]
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The skillfulest trencher-men of Media. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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3. A table companion; a trencher mate. --Thackeray.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
trencherman
n : a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess
[syn: glutton, gourmand]
WordNet (r) 2.0
54 Moby Thesaurus words for "trencherman":
Brillat-Savarin, Lucullus, belly-god, board-and-roomer, boarder,
bon vivant, cannibal, carnivore, connoisseur of food, consumer,
cormorant, diner, diner-out, eater, eater-out, epicure, feeder,
flesh-eater, fruitarian, gastronome, glutton, gorger, gormand,
gormandizer, gourmand, gourmandizer, gourmet, grain-eater,
graminivore, granivore, greedy eater, greedygut, greedyguts,
guttler, herbivore, high liver, hog, hungry mouth, husky eater,
lactovegetarian, luncher, man-eater, meat-eater, mouth, omnivore,
omophagist, pantophagist, phytophage, picnicker, pig, plant-eater,
predacean, trencherwoman, vegetarian
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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