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TRENCHERMAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does trencherman mean?
• TRENCHERMAN (noun)
The noun TRENCHERMAN has 1 sense:
1. a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess
Familiarity information: TRENCHERMAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
glutton; gourmand; gourmandizer; trencherman
Hypernyms ("trencherman" is a kind of...):
Context examples
We might take the edge of our hunger off ere we seek the prince, for though his tables are gay with damask and silver he is no trencherman himself, and hath no sympathy for those who are his betters.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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