bloodthirster

English

Etymology

blood +‎ thirster

Noun

bloodthirster (plural bloodthirsters)

  1. A person who is bloodthirsty.
    • 1980, Carol R. Berkin, Women, War, and Revolution, page 128:
      The Thermidorian majority disparaged the authoritarian revolutionary government and referred to the sans-culottes as "cannibals" and "bloodthirsters" for conspiring with the Jacobin "despots" in terrorizing middle-class citizens of both sexes, the honnêtes gens.
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