plural bibliophagists
Definition of bibliophagist
: an avid or voracious reader
Like many bibliophagists, Dirda sometimes has an excessively romantic view of the power of the page. — Kirkus Reviews, 1 Mar. 2006 Once you had got through Pooh and Dr. Dolittle, Alice and the Water Babies, you were a bibliophagist on the loose.— Nadine Gordimer, Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1954–2008, 2010
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The first known use of bibliophagist was in 1881
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