gnawer

English

Etymology

gnaw +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnɔːə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnɔəɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɔːə(ɹ)

Noun

gnawer (plural gnawers)

1. One who gnaws.
   1. A rodent or other animal that gnaws.
      • 1839, Robert FitzRoy, Phillip Parker King, Charles Darwin, chapter VII, in Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836, […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

        South America is characterized by possessing many peculiar gnawers […] .

      • 1947, Lloyd Glenn Ingles, Mammals of California, Stanford University Press, page 182:

        The Norway Rat is a good digger and a superb gnawer.

Translations

rodent or other animal that gnaws

• Bulgarian: гризач (bg) m (grizač)
• Danish: gnaver (da) c
• Dutch: knaagdier (nl) n
• German: Nager (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: τρώκτης m (trṓktēs)

• Russian: грызу́н (ru) m (gryzún)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: глодар m

  Roman: glodar m

• Swedish: gnagare (sv) c

Anagrams

• Wagner, wanger