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- adjective Common misspelling of
omnivorous .
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Examples
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"I mean omnivourous," with a still stronger accent on the wrong syllable.
The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879 Various
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He was reputed to be a man of omnivourous learning, who like Lord Bacon had taken all knowledge for his realm; indeed, his greatest admirers boasted, not without exaggeration, that he would have been just as much at home in the chair of Mathematics as he was in that of Greek.
In the days of my youth when I was a student in the University of Virginia, 1888-1893. James Powell Cocke 1947
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I’m pretty eclectic and omnivourous too, though all of my personal favorites have humour at their core.
Relatively awesome 2010
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