bloodsucker
Etymology Noun
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Etymology Noun
bloodsucker (plural bloodsuckers)
- An animal that drinks the blood of others, especially by sucking blood through a puncture wound; a hemovore.
- (by extension) Any parasite.
- (by extension) One who attempts to take as much from others as possible; a leech.
- Synonyms: gadfly
- A vampire.
- The changeable lizard (Calotes versicolor).
- French: suceur de sang, suceuse de sang
- German: Blutsauger, Blutsaugerin
- Portuguese: sugador/chupador de sangue
- Russian: кровопи́йца
- Spanish: sanguijuela
- French: sangsue (a leech)
- German: Blutsauger, Blutsaugerin
- Portuguese: chulo, chupista, parasita, sanguessuga
- Russian: кровопи́йца
- Spanish: chupasangre, chupóptero (Spain), sanguijuela
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