blooder
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English bloder, equivalent to blood + -er.
Noun
[edit]blooder (plural blooders)
- A person or creature which draws blood
- A bloodsucker
- 1810, Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon, A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, page 278:
- The bat is so dexterous a blooder, as to insinuate its tongue into a vein without being perceived, it then sucks the blood till it is satiated, all the while fanning with its wings, and agitating the air […]