biter
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5.3
- noun
- /ˈbaɪtər/
:
mordedor
- After the incident with the cat, I warned my friends not to approach the biter again.
- nail biter
- ankle biter
- pillow biter
No, but like, there's biters and there's suckers.
- No, but like, there's biters and there's suckers.
- Trump better Watch out, man, because Biden's a biter.
Examples
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Was she not the greatest biter in her school?
Fiction book (1990) -
Watch out, we got a biter!
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I did, but Roberto was a biter, and biters really turn me off.
Fiction book (2000) -
He's a biter.
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The mechanisms that inhibit host-seeking after a blood meal are indeed less developed in night biters than in day biters.
Academic text (1992) -
Be careful; that dog is a known biter and might nip at strangers.
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The toddler is a real biter; he keeps biting his toys whenever he's upset.
Synonyms
3
7.2
A person or animal that eats small bites again and again
Compounds
- Informal
7
5.2
A situation that makes people very nervous because the result is uncertain
- Slang
An animal or person who chews and damages car tyres, sometimes used to mean a troublesome person
How Forceful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word biter starts from the simple verb bite, an old word meaning 'to cut or hold with the teeth'. It adds the ending -er meaning 'one who', like in baker, so a biter is literally 'one who bites'.