opsophagos

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== English == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek, from ὄψον (ópson, “delicacies”) + φάγος (phágos, “glutton”); compare English opson, Latin obsonium. === Noun === opsophagos (plural opsophagoi) (literary or historical) A glutton, a gourmand, chiefly one who hogs and eats excessive amounts of fish. 2012, Dan Brayton, Shakespeare′s Ocean: An Ecocritical Exploration, footnote, unnumbered page, 25. James Davidson (Courtesans and Fishcakes) describes something similar in classical Athenian culture, a cultural association between the fish desired by the opsophagos, or fisheater, and the bodies of prostitutes (male and female).