Trencher-man

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  trencherman
       n : a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess
           [syn: {glutton}, {gourmand}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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