verbivore
noun
verbivore is a noun meaning “One who has an enjoyment of words and wordplay” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-R-B-I-V-O-R-E. The plural of verbivore is verbivores.
What does verbivore mean?
noun
- 1
One who has an enjoyment of words and wordplay.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce verbivore?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-verbivore.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of verbivore
- verbivores plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does verbivore come from?
From Latin verbum (“word”) + Latin vorax, from vorō (“devour”), on the pattern of herbivore and carnivore; coined in the early 1980s by Richard Lederer.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).