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verbivore: Verbivore's Feast Chrysti Mueller Smith, 2012-09-12 What led to the expression let the cat out of the bag? Why do we call blondes towheads? For Pete's sake, what is a fangle? In this humorous and engaging collection of word origins and histories, the famed host of the Chrysti the Wordsmith series (heard on Yellowstone Public Radio, Montana Public Radio, Montana State University's KGLT-FM, and Armed Forces Radio and Television Service) shares the stories behind the words. This irresistible medley is a must for word lovers everywhere. |
verbivore: Verbivore's Feast: Second Course Chrysti Mueller Smith, 2015-09-12 In this companion edition to her popular Verbivore's Feast, Chrysti the Wordsmith, host of the much-loved radio show of the same name, once again examines the evolution and history of the English language, using the odd expressions and cliches that pepper it. Exploring words such as lollygag and quack, and phrases ranging from break a leg to shake a stick and from Adam's apple to trip the light fantastic, Chrysti the Wordsmith uncovers the fascinating stories about their origins. |
verbivore: Verbivore Christine Brooke-Rose, 1990 Science fiction featuring Hip and Zab, the heroes of X̀orandor'. |
verbivore: Adventures of a Verbivore Richard Lederer, 1995-03 In this rollicking romp through the bountiful world of words (Minneapolis Star), the bestselling author of Crazy English and More Anguished English takes readers on a logoleptic thrill ride through the beauties and perplexities of the language, spiking the text with irresistible mind scramblers. |
verbivore: Anguished English Richard Lederer, 2006 A collection of humorous language bloopers including misspelled words, bungled translations, mangled modifiers, and much more. |
verbivore: Crazy English Richard Lederer, 2010-05-11 In what other language, asks Lederer, do people drive on a parkway and park in a driveway, and your nose can run and your feet can smell? In CRAZY ENGLISH, Lederer frolics through the logic-boggling byways of our language, discovering the names for phobias you didn't know you could have, the longest words in our dictionaries, and the shortest sentence containing every letter in the alphabet. You'll take a bird's-eye view of our beastly language, feast on a banquet of mushrooming food metaphors, and meet the self-reflecting Doctor Rotcod, destined to speak only in palindromes. |
verbivore: How Novels Work John Mullan, 2008-02-14 Never has contemporary fiction been more widely discussed and passionately analysed; recent years have seen a huge growth in the number of reading groups and in the interest of a non-academic readership in the discussion of how novels work. Drawing on his weekly Guardian column, 'Elements of Fiction', John Mullan examines novels mostly of the last ten years, many of which have become firm favourites with reading groups. He reveals the rich resources of novelistic technique, setting recent fiction alongside classics of the past. Nick Hornby's adoption of a female narrator is compared to Daniel Defoe's; Ian McEwan's use of weather is set against Austen's and Hardy's; Carole Shield's chapter divisions are likened to Fanny Burney's. Each section shows how some basic element of fiction is used. Some topics (like plot, dialogue, or location) will appear familiar to most novel readers; others (metanarrative, prolepsis, amplification) will open readers' eyes to new ways of understanding and appreciating the writer's craft. How Novels Work explains how the pleasures of novel reading often come from the formal ingenuity of the novelist. It is an entertaining and stimulating exploration of that ingenuity. Addressed to anyone who is interested in the close reading of fiction, it makes visible techniques and effects we are often only half-aware of as we read. It shows that literary criticism is something that all fiction enthusiasts can do. Contemporary novels discussed include: Monica Ali's Brick Lane; Martin Amis's Money; Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin; A.S. Byatt's Possession; Jonathan Coe's The Rotters' Club; J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace; Michael Cunningham's The Hours; Don DeLillo's Underworld; Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White; Ian Fleming's From Russia with Love; Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections; Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time; Patricia Highsmith's Ripley under Ground; Alan Hollinghurst's The Spell; Nick Hornby's How to Be Good; Ian McEwan's Atonement; John le Carré's The Constant Gardener; Andrea Levy's Small Island; David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas; Andrew O'Hagan's Personality; Orhan Pamuk's My Name Is Red; Ann Patchett's Bel Canto; Ruth Rendell's Adam and Eve and Pinch Me; Philip Roth's The Human Stain; Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated; Carol Shields's Unless; Zadie Smith's White Teeth; Muriel Spark's Aiding and Abetting; Graham Swift's Last Orders; Donna Tartt's The Secret History; William Trevor's The Hill Bachelors; and Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road . |
verbivore: Xorandor Christine Brooke-Rose, 1986 |
verbivore: Get Thee to a Punnery (revised) Richard Lederer, 2006-04-21 The pun is mightier than a sword, |
verbivore: More Anguished English Richard Lederer, 1994-09-04 All the joy of the best-selling Anguished English is back! 2,000 all-new side-splitting flubs, fluffs, and hilariously funny accidental assaults on our language. |
verbivore: Comma Sense Richard Lederer, John Shore, 2007-07-10 Fans of Eats, Shoots and Leaves will delight in this collection from one ofAmerica's favorite grammarians. 15 illustrations. |
verbivore: Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction Sarah Birch, 1994 This is the first, full-length study of the fiction of Christine Brooke-Rose, one of the most innovative and yet critically neglected of contemporary British writers. Setting her work firmly in the context of English and French writing as well as literary and feminist theory, Sarah Birch examines the full range of Brooke-Rose's fiction: the early realist novels published between 1957-1961; the strongly anti-realist period beginning with Out (1964), when Brooke-Rose's work was seen to be heavily influenced by French experimental fiction; and the third phase of her development which began with Xorandor (1986) and which marks a questioning return to the traditional techniques of the novel. Sarah Birch asks why a novelist who has been so highly praised by critics is nevertheless excluded from the contemporary canon, and argues that Brooke-Rose's position on the borders of European and British cultures raises key questions concerning the notion of a 'national' tradition and of literary post-modernism. For Birch, Brooke-Rose's work is best understood as a poetic and playful questioning of categories in general, be they discursive or cultural. Drawing on a detailed knowledge of literary theory, this is a major study of an important but critically neglected novelist and a perceptive analysis of the position of contemporary experimental writers. |
verbivore: Excellent Women Barbara Pym, 2006-12-26 Excellent Women is probably the most famous of Barbara Pym's novels. The acclaim a few years ago for this early comic novel, which was hailed by Lord David Cecil as one of 'the finest examples of high comedy to have appeared in England during the past seventy-five years,' helped launch the rediscovery of the author's entire work. Mildred Lathbury is a clergyman's daughter and a spinster in the England of the 1950s, one of those 'excellent women' who tend to get involved in other people's lives - such as those of her new neighbor, Rockingham, and the vicar next door. This is Barbara Pym's world at its funniest. |
verbivore: British Novelists Since 1960 Merritt Moseley, 2001 Contains biographical sketches of representative British novelists whose work began to appear roughly around 1960. |
verbivore: The Miracle of Language Richard Lederer, 1999-04-01 Master verbalist Richard Lederer, America's Wizard of Idiom (Denver Post), presents a love letter to the most glorious of human achievements... Welcome to Richard Lederer's beguiling celebration of language -- of our ability to utter, write, and receive words. No purists need stop here. Mr. Lederer is no linguistic sheriff organizing posses to hunt down and string up language offenders. Instead, join him In Praise of English, and discover why the tongue described in Shakespeare's day as of small reatch has become the most widely spoken language in history: English never rejects a word because of race, creed, or national origin. Did you know that jukebox comes from Gullah and canoe from Haitian Creole? Many of our greatest writers have invented words and bequeathed new expressions to our eveyday conversations. Can you imagine making up almost ten percent of our written vocabulary? Scholars now know that William Shakespeare did just that! He also points out the pitfalls and pratfalls of English. If a man mans a station, what does a woman do? In the The Department of Redundancy Department, Is English Prejudiced? and other essays, Richard Lederer urges us not to abandon that which makes us human: the capacity to distinguish, discriminate, compare, and evaluate. |
verbivore: Presidential Trivia Richard Lederer, 2009-02-19 Presidential Trivia: The Feats, Fates, Families, Foibles, and Firsts of Our American Presidents Revised and Updated from the beloved Richard Lederer comes another kind of trivia book—Presidential Trivia. In it you’ll find all the detailsabout the lives of the United States presidents. It answers such questions as: Who was the first president to be assassinated? Who was the first president to be born an American citizen? Who was the first to be impeached? It also answers less important but certainly interesting questions such as: Who was our fattest president? Our tallest? Who played golf? Who played poker? |
verbivore: A Man of My Words Richard Lederer, 2005-10 A new collection of essays on the joys and curiosities of the English language, from renowned word expert Richard Lederer. |
verbivore: The Uncommon Reader Alan Bennett, 2007-09-18 From one of England's most celebrated writers, a funny and superbly observed novella about the Queen of England and the subversive power of reading When her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Discovering the joy of reading widely (from J. R. Ackerley, Jean Genet, and Ivy Compton-Burnett to the classics) and intelligently, she finds that her view of the world changes dramatically. Abetted in her newfound obsession by Norman, a young man from the royal kitchens, the Queen comes to question the prescribed order of the world and loses patience with the routines of her role as monarch. Her new passion for reading initially alarms the palace staff and soon leads to surprising and very funny consequences for the country at large. With the poignant and mischievous wit of The History Boys, England's best loved author Alan Bennett revels in the power of literature to change even the most uncommon reader's life. |
verbivore: Contemporary Literary Criticism Tom Burns, Jeffery Hunter, 2004-04 Covers authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. Profiles novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers by providing criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals. |
verbivore: The Cunning Linguist Richard Lederer, 2007-04-01 “Noted linguist Lederer (Anguished English) has a naughty side, which . . . makes this collection of wordplays a bawdily noteworthy achievement.” —Publishers Weekly Have some fun with your native tongue! In The Cunning Linguist, renowned language expert Richard Lederer shows us the naughtier side of wordplay, revealing hundreds of hilarious, ingenious, unabashed, and adults-only puns, jokes, limericks, one-liners, and other adventures in sexual humor. This book of “good, clean dirty fun” will delight word hounds, punsters, bachelor-party goers, and anyone who likes a clever grown-up joke. Here’s a taste of The Cunning Linguist: Q: What does a man have in his pants that you can also find on a pool table? A: Pockets. Have you heard about the incompatible couple? He had no income, and she wasn’t pattable. The four stages of a couple’s sex life: Under 35: Tri-weekly 35-45: Try weekly 45-55: Try weakly 55 and over: Try, try, try. For much more, sneak between the covers of this unique and laugh-out-loud book. “Delightfully raunchy.” —Sidney Sheldon, #1 New York Times–bestselling author |
verbivore: American Trivia Richard Lederer, Caroline McCullagh, 2012-02-01 Learn fascinating facts about the history, culture, leaders, and heroes of our great nation in this comprehensive volume of U.S. trivia. This land is your land—so you should know a thing or two about it. American Trivia is chock full of fascinating facts, historical riddles, and puzzling quizzes about the people, places, and events that make this nation great. Divided into sections on national origins, presidents, historical figures, and more, this book offers a crash course in essential Americana. In these pages, you will learn the origin of the national anthem, stories about national monuments such as the Liberty Bell and Statue of Liberty, fascinating information about the country’s heroes and inventors, and more. As co-authors Richard Lederer and Caroline McCullagh demonstrate, American trivia is anything but trivial. |
verbivore: Turing's Cathedral George Dyson, 2012-12-11 A Wall Street Journal Best Business Book of 2012 A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012 In this revealing account of how the digital universe exploded in the aftermath of World War II, George Dyson illuminates the nature of digital computers, the lives of those who brought them into existence, and how code took over the world. In the 1940s and ‘50s, a small group of men and women—led by John von Neumann—gathered in Princeton, New Jersey, to begin building one of the first computers to realize Alan Turing’s vision of a Universal Machine. The codes unleashed within this embryonic, 5-kilobyte universe—less memory than is allocated to displaying a single icon on a computer screen today—broke the distinction between numbers that mean things and numbers that do things, and our universe would never be the same. Turing’s Cathedral is the story of how the most constructive and most destructive of twentieth-century inventions—the digital computer and the hydrogen bomb—emerged at the same time. |
verbivore: Review of Contemporary Fiction , 1989 |
verbivore: Amazing Words Richard Lederer, 2012 With fascinating etymologies and letter patterns of more than 400 everyday words, bestselling language writer Richard Lederer offers insights into the most bedazzling, beguiling, and bewitching words in the English language. Readers will discover why William Shakespeare may be hiding in the Old Testament; why run is the longest word in English; how people's names become common words; and how the Bible, mythology, the sea, the land, show business, and games spark words and phrases in everyday vocabulary. Chock-full of transfixing word histories, magical letter play, and hilarious puns, Amazing Words is an essential book for wordaholics, logolepts, and verbivores. |
verbivore: Have Yourself a Punny Little Christmas Richard Lederer, 2009-09 Q. Why did Frosty decide to live in the middle of the ocean? A. Because snowman is an island. Q. What do you call a bunch of parents standing in line to buy their daughters a popular doll? A. A Barbie queue. Q. An opinion survey in Alaska is called what? A. A north poll. Q. When you cross a sheep with a cicada, what do you get? A. Baa, humbug! |
verbivore: Sleeping Dogs Don't Lay Richard Lederer, Richard Dowis, 1999-09-10 The authors clear up once and for all the confusion between lay and lie and put to rest some common myths about language.--BOOK JACKET. |
verbivore: The Conservationist Nadine Gordimer, 1983-02-24 This is a novel of enormous power' New Statesman 'Gordimer is a great writer ... It is Turgenev that she most brings to mind' -- New York Review of Books The Booker Prize winning political novel by the Nobel Prize winning author Nadine Gordimer Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son, and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers become increasingly indifferent to his stewardship; even the land rises up, as drought, then flood, destroy his farm. |
verbivore: A Treasury for Dog Lovers Richard Lederer, 2013-03-23 Celebrating Your Best Friend Dogs have been man's best friend for thousands of years, securing our hearts with their unwavering loyalty and boundless love. Join bestselling author Richard Lederer for a fun-filled collection of rollicking humor, witty word games, touching stories, and more -- all complemented by hilarious drawings. Celebrate the company of your furry pal as you delight in such wit and wisdom as... • All I Need to Know I Learned from My Dog • Ten Commandments for Dog Owners • A Dozen Distinguished Dogs • The Difference Between Dogs and Cats |
verbivore: Postmodern Studies , 1993 |
verbivore: The Grandest Bookshop in the World Amelia Mellor, 2020-09-29 Pearl and Vally Cole live in a bookshop. And not just any bookshop. In 1893, Cole's Book Arcade in Melbourne is the grandest bookshop in the world, brimming with every curiosity imaginable. Each day brings fresh delights for the siblings: voice-changing sweets, talking parrots, a new story written just for them by their eccentric father. When Pearl and Vally learn that Pa has risked the Arcade - and himself - in a shocking deal with the mysterious Obscurosmith, the siblings hatch a plan. Soon they are swept into a dangerous game with impossibly high stakes: defeat seven challenges by the stroke of midnight and both the Arcade and their father will be restored. But if they fail Pearl and Vally won't just lose Pa - they'll forget that he and the Arcade ever existed. |
verbivore: There's a Word for It! Charles Harringto Elster, 1997-09-01 Word lovers will delight in this collection of unusual, useful words and their definitions by a man William Safire calls ek-Stror-di-ner-ee. Anyone who enjoys playing with the English language will find this compendium charming and at times hysterical.--Booklist. |
verbivore: St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers Jay P. Pederson, 1996 Concise discussions of the lives and principal works of prominent science-fiction authors, written by subject experts. |
verbivore: The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls, 2007-01-02 A triumphant tale of a young woman and her difficult childhood, The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience, redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and wonderfully vibrant. Jeannette Walls was the second of four children raised by anti-institutional parents in a household of extremes. |
verbivore: The Kiss Quotient Helen Hoang, 2021-04-27 From the author of The Bride Test comes a romance novel hailed as one of The Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2018 and one of Amazon’s Top 100 Books of 2018! “This is such a fun read and it's also quite original and sexy and sensitive.”—Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author “Hoang's writing bursts from the page.”—Buzzfeed A heartwarming and refreshing debut novel that proves one thing: there's not enough data in the world to predict what will make your heart tick. Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases—a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old. It doesn't help that Stella has Asperger's and French kissing reminds her of a shark getting its teeth cleaned by pilot fish. Her conclusion: she needs lots of practice—with a professional. Which is why she hires escort Michael Phan. The Vietnamese and Swedish stunner can't afford to turn down Stella's offer, and agrees to help her check off all the boxes on her lesson plan—from foreplay to more-than-missionary position... Before long, Stella not only learns to appreciate his kisses, but crave all of the other things he's making her feel. Their no-nonsense partnership starts making a strange kind of sense. And the pattern that emerges will convince Stella that love is the best kind of logic... |
verbivore: Chapman , 1997 |
verbivore: The Senator's Wife Sue Miller, 2009-01-06 NATIONAL BESTELLER • The New York Times bestselling author of Monogomy brings us a tasteful, elegant, sensuous (The Boston Globe) novel about marriage and forgiveness. Meri is newly married, pregnant, and standing on the cusp of her life as a wife and mother, recognizing with some terror the gap between reality and expectation. Delia—wife of the two-term liberal senator Tom Naughton—is Meri's new neighbor in the adjacent New England town house. Tom's chronic infidelity has been an open secret in Washington circles, but despite the complexity of their relationship, the bond between them remains strong. Soon Delia and Meri find themselves leading strangely parallel lives, as they both reckon with the contours and mysteries of marriage: one refined and abraded by years of complicated intimacy, the other barely begun. With precision and a rich vitality, Sue Miller—beloved and bestselling author of While I Was Gone—brings us a highly charged, superlative novel. |
verbivore: A Tribute to Teachers Richard Lederer, 2011 Cheering on the true heroes of the classroom, this collection sings a chorus of praise to those who change our lives one day and one lesson at a time. Readers will meet great teachers throughout history, as well as educators captured in literature, film, and comic strips. Offering compelling statistics that prove teachers really do make a difference in the English, math, history, and science classrooms, A Tribute to Teachers celebrates the most unheralded, exhausting, income-challenged, and ultimately rewarding of all professions. Chapters include: The Private Live of Real Teachers A Teacher's Dictionary Students Say the Darnedest Things A Gallery of Great Teachers Teachers' Advice to Students A Remarkable School Hysterical History A Teacher's Legacy Book jacket. |
verbivore: Textermination Christine Brooke-Rose, 1992 In her latest novel, Textermination, the eminent British novelist/critic Christine Brooke-Rose pulls a wide array of characters out of the great works of literature and drops them into the middle of the San Francisco Hilton. Emma Bovary, Emma Woodhouse, Captain Ahab, Odysseus, Huck Finn... all are gathered for the Annual Convention of Prayer for Being, to meet, to discuss, to pray for their continued existence in the mind of the modern reader. But what begins as a grand enterprise erupts into total pandemonium: with characters from different times, places, and genres all battling for respect and asserting their own hard-won fame and reputations. Dealing with such topical literary issues as deconstruction, multiculturalism, and the Salman Rushdie affair, this wild and humorous satire pokes fun at the academy and ultimately brings into question the value of determining a literary canon at all. |
verbivore: Girl Meets Boy Ali Smith, 2021-06-30 From the astonishingly talented writer of The Accidental and Hotel World comes Ali Smiths brilliant retelling of Ovids gender-bending myth of Iphis and Ianthe, as seen through the eyes of two Scottish sisters. Girl Meets Boy is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, and the absurdity of consumerism, as well as a story of reversals and revelations that is as sharply witty as it is lyrical. Funny, fresh, poetic, and political, Girl Meets Boy is a myth of metamorphosis for a world made in Madison Avenues image, and the funniest addition to the Myths series from Canongate since Margaret Atwoods The Penelopiad. |
verbivore: Super Funny Animal Jokes Richard Lederer, Jim Ertner, 2011 Presents a collection of animal jokes and puns, arranged by type of animal. |
Verbivore – Where Language Comes Alive
Jun 21, 2025 · Richard Lederer's Verbivore Welcome to the website woven for wordaholics, logolepts, and verbivores. Carnivores eat meat; herbivores eat plants and vegetables; …
Verbivore OÜ
Verbivore is committed to creating and continuously improving our courses to enable students from diverse backgrounds to upskill their English on the go. We are dedicated to providing …
VERBIVORE
Verbivore offers in-depth Wordle hints, strategies, and tips to help players solve puzzles with ease. Discover expert techniques, daily Wordle answers, and advanced insights that boost …
Verbivore Definition & Meaning | YourDictionary
Verbivore definition: (humorous, neologism) One who has an enjoyment of words and wordplay.
Resources – Verbivore
Richard Lederer's Verbivore Welcome to the website woven for wordaholics, logolepts, and verbivores. Carnivores eat meat; herbivores eat plants and vegetables; verbivores devour …
Word Nerd: Verbivore – Lawhimsy
Jun 7, 2017 · Verbivore is a humorous neologism coined by Richard Lederer in the early 1980s. Verbivore derives from the Latin terms verbum (“word”) and Latin vorax, from vorō (“devour”) …
verbivore - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Oct 14, 2024 · verbivore (plural verbivores) (humorous) One who has an enjoyment of words and wordplay.
verbivore: a hunger for words - Semantic Lacuna
Nov 25, 2024 · Remember that thrill as a kid when you heard a new word? That moment before learning its meaning, full of mystery and possibility? That's the essence of a verbivore - …
Education - Verbivore OÜ
With Verbivore, students don’t just learn English - they thrive in it. In the last few years English language education has moved more and more online. Revolutionise your school's language …
What does VERBIVORE mean? - Definitions.net
Definition of VERBIVORE in the Definitions.net dictionary. Meaning of VERBIVORE. What does VERBIVORE mean? Information and translations of VERBIVORE in the most comprehensive …
Verbivore – Where Language Comes Alive
Jun 21, 2025 · Richard Lederer's Verbivore Welcome to the website woven for wordaholics, logolepts, and verbivores. Carnivores eat meat; herbivores eat plants and vegetables; …
Verbivore OÜ
Verbivore is committed to creating and continuously improving our courses to enable students from diverse backgrounds to upskill their English on the go. We are dedicated to providing …
VERBIVORE
Verbivore offers in-depth Wordle hints, strategies, and tips to help players solve puzzles with ease. Discover expert techniques, daily Wordle answers, and advanced insights that boost …
Verbivore Definition & Meaning | YourDictionary
Verbivore definition: (humorous, neologism) One who has an enjoyment of words and wordplay.
Resources – Verbivore
Richard Lederer's Verbivore Welcome to the website woven for wordaholics, logolepts, and verbivores. Carnivores eat meat; herbivores eat plants and vegetables; verbivores devour …
Word Nerd: Verbivore – Lawhimsy
Jun 7, 2017 · Verbivore is a humorous neologism coined by Richard Lederer in the early 1980s. Verbivore derives from the Latin terms verbum (“word”) and Latin vorax, from vorō (“devour”) …
verbivore - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Oct 14, 2024 · verbivore (plural verbivores) (humorous) One who has an enjoyment of words and wordplay.
verbivore: a hunger for words - Semantic Lacuna
Nov 25, 2024 · Remember that thrill as a kid when you heard a new word? That moment before learning its meaning, full of mystery and possibility? That's the essence of a verbivore - …
Education - Verbivore OÜ
With Verbivore, students don’t just learn English - they thrive in it. In the last few years English language education has moved more and more online. Revolutionise your school's language …
What does VERBIVORE mean? - Definitions.net
Definition of VERBIVORE in the Definitions.net dictionary. Meaning of VERBIVORE. What does VERBIVORE mean? Information and translations of VERBIVORE in the most comprehensive …