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Preferring meat, one makes awful toast (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

stoat

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'preferring meat one' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'awful toast' is the wordplay.
'awful' indicates anagramming the letters.
'toast' anagrammed gives 'STOAT'.

'makes' is the link.

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(Other definitions for stoat that I've seen before include "Source of ermine" , "Eating rabbit, he" , "European ermine" , "Small carnivorous mammal of the weasel family" , "Provider of ermine" .)

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