foul feeder

English

Noun

foul feeder (plural foul feeders)

An animal that feeds on carrion or the like; a scavenger.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
  "He's a foul feeder, is Mr. Malone, a carrion eater, like all of his kind[.]"
(obsolete) A horse that has bad eating habits.

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