snarfer
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsnɑːɹfɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsnɑːfə/
Noun
[edit]snarfer (plural snarfers)
- (slang) One who snarfs (eats or drinks greedily).
- 2011, Bruce Weinstein, Lobsters Scream When You Boil Them: And 100 Other Myths About Food and Cooking: Plus 25 Recipes to Get It Right Every Time, New York, N.Y. […]: Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 242:
- But from lunch to dinner, there's sometimes an eight-hour gap. It's too long; we get hungry, need to snack. And so we become both nibblers and snarfers all in one day.
References
[edit]- ^ “snarfer, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.