gnawer

English

Etymology

gnaw +‎ -er

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnɔːə/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnɔəɹ/
Rhymes: -ɔːə(ɹ)

Noun

gnawer (plural gnawers)

One who gnaws.
1. A rodent or other animal that gnaws.
  - 1839, Robert FitzRoy, Phillip Parker King, Charles Darwin, chapter 7, 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)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: глодар m

Roman: glodar m
Swedish: gnagare (sv) c

Anagrams

Wagner, wanger

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