grazer

See also: Grazer

English

Etymology

From graze +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹeɪz.ə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -eɪzə(ɹ)
• Homophone: graser

Noun

grazer (plural grazers)

1. One who or that which grazes, in any sense.
   • 1995, Margaret Fawcus, Stuttering: From Theory to Practice, page 41:

     It seems likely that parents are free to respond in these different ways because they have no fear of their child growing into a chronic, adult knee-grazer.

2. An animal that grazes.
   • 1998, Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulatelike Mammals, page 595:

     There were large hippolike grazers (Teleoceras, Brachypotherium, and Peraceras superciliosum) […]

   • 2018 April 4, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian:

     For instance, the little bush moa fed nearly exclusively on forest vegetation, whereas the heavy-footed moa was a grazer in open vegetation habitats.

3. A television viewer with a short attention span who switches between channels regularly.
   • 2004, Stanley D. Brunn, Susan L. Cutter, J. W. Harrington Jr., Geography and Technology, page 330:

     Grazers have a lower level of involvement and view only when "something is happening."