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Thread #80325   Message #1463602
Posted By: Amos
17-Apr-05 - 12:39 PM
Thread Name: Happy! - April 17
Subject: RE: Happy! - April 17
I was going to ignore this thread, but for Abby's name, and I am glad I paid heed. Thanks to that bit of intelligent decision I now know the word ANTHROPOPHAGUS!! What joy!! To think, I learned it on the Mudcat!! LOL

Thanks, Abby!!


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1) anthropophagus. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Inflected forms: pl. an·thro·poph·a·gi (-j) A person who eats human flesh; a cannibal. Latin anthropophagus, from Greek anthropophagos, man-eating : anthropo-, anthropo-.