If ‘aardvark lover’ has that syntactic structure, then it determinately means “lover of aardvarks.

In the end, NBC needed Savannah Guthrie's performance to justify their decision: Was [President Donald] Trump's counter-programmed town hall just a ratings ploy, or would it pass journalistic muster?

'Cause you do not get to win, shitbird. We do!

There were sneers, and scoffs, and inuendoes of some; prophecies of failure in a hundred ways; forecastings of non-completion, forecastings of swift dissolution and crashing ruin […]