foul feeder

noun

An animal that feeds on carrion or the like; a scavenger.

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Meanings

nounfoul feeder (plural foul feeders)

plural foul feeders

  1. An animal that feeds on carrion or the like; a scavenger.

    "He's a foul feeder, is Mr. Malone, a carrion eater, like all of his kind[.]"

    1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
  2. obsoleteA horse that has bad eating habits.
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