"devouress" meaning in Englisch

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Noun

Forms: devourer [masculine], the devouress [singular], the devouresses [plural]
Etymology: devour
  1. eine Frau, die über die Maßen isst; Fresserin Tags: archaic
    Sense id: de-devouress-en-noun-ISl7uiNQ
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (veraltet: eine Frau, die über die Maßen isst; Fresserin): Fresserin (Deutsch)

Inflected forms

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