What does trencher-man mean?
Trencher-man means (obsolete) A feeder; a great eater; a gormandizer..
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/ˈtɹɛnt͡ʃə(ɹ)mən/ · noun
(obsolete) A feeder; a great eater; a gormandizer..
Shakespeare's Falstaff is a famous trencher-man.
BEATRICE. You had musty victual, and he hath holp to eat it; he is a very valiant trencher-man; he hath an excellent stomach.
"Holy Clerk," said the stranger, after the first cup was thus swallowed, "I cannot but marvel that a man possessed of such thews and sinews as thine, and who therewithal shows the talent of so goodly a trencher-man, should think of abiding by himself in this wilderness. In my judgment, you are fitter to keep a castle or a fort, eating of the fat and drinking of the strong, than to live here upon pulse and water, or even upon the charity of the keeper.
The skilfullest trencher-men of Media.
Mr. Wagg, the celebrated wit, and a led captain and trencher-man of my Lord Steyne, was caused by the ladies to charge her; and the worthy fellow, leering at his patronesses, and giving them a wink, as much as to say, "Now look out for sport,"
Use trencher-man when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Trencher-man means (obsolete) A feeder; a great eater; a gormandizer..
Common synonyms include glutton.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Shakespeare's Falstaff is a famous trencher-man.
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