omnivorous

1. Eating both animal and vegetable foods.
2. Taking in everything available, as with the mind: an omnivorous reader.

[From Latin omnivorus : omni-, omni- + -vorus, -vorous.]

If Hillary and Bill can reference the last episode of The Sopranos in a campaign video, then newspaper opinion columnists can write about it, too, can't they? (Actually, even if Hillary and Bill hadn't...) Maureen Dowd wastes no time in jumping on the bandwagon, and she calls Tony Soprano a man who eats anything:

"Would Carmela, she of the pans of baked ziti and casseroles of veal parm, ever deny the omnivorous Tony onion rings? Nah. But the Carmela-Tony pact was a lot less strict than the Hillary-Bill pact."

Link: Carmela Got Gold Jewelry. Hillary Wants a White House. - New York Times

Posted June 20, 2007.

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adjective

Having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit: avid, edacious, gluttonous, greedy, rapacious, ravenous, unappeasable, voracious. See desire.

Eating both plant and animal foods.

Common misspelling(s) of omnivorous

• omniverous