Shakespeare's Falstaff is a famous trencher-man.
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Trencher-man
//ˈtɹɛnt͡ʃə(ɹ)mən//
Synonyms for "trencher-man" (1 found)
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6 translations across 5 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- лакомник noun (person who eats a substantial amount)
Dutch
1 entries- slokop noun (person who eats a substantial amount)
Irish
2 entries- fear mórshách noun (person who eats a substantial amount)
- méadlachán noun (person who eats a substantial amount)
Portuguese
1 entries- comilão noun (person who eats a substantial amount)
Russian
1 entries- едо́к noun (person who eats a substantial amount)
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BEATRICE. You had musty victual, and he hath holp to eat it; he is a very valiant trencher-man; he hath an excellent stomach.
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"Holy Clerk," said the stranger, after the first cup was thus swallowed, "I cannot but marvel that a man possessed of such thews and sinews as thine, and who therewithal shows the talent of so goodly a trencher-man, should think of abiding by himself in this wilderness. In my judgment, you are fitter to keep a castle or a fort, eating of the fat and drinking of the strong, than to live here upon pulse and water, or even upon the charity of the keeper.
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The skilfullest trencher-men of Media.
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