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croweater

croweater noun: a person from South Australia.

Noun

croweater (plural croweaters)

  1. (Australia, slang) A person from South Australia.
    • In those days we would play the Croweaters on a Tuesday night over in Adelaide.2008, Robert Harvey, Harves: Strength Through Loyalty, page 137
    • In the event, Carlton′s ‘worm’, Alex Jesaulenko, was comprehensively upstaged by his croweater rival, Barrie Robran, who in the end probably proved the decisive difference between the two sides.2009, John P. Devaney, Full Points Footy: Encyclopedia of Australian Football Clubs, page 328

Forms of croweater

pluralcroweaters
alternative formcrow eater
alternative formcrow-eater

Origin of croweater

From crow + eater. Early settlers in South Australia were alleged to have eaten the breast meat of crows, parrots and cockatoos when there was a shortage of red meat. The term entered the lexicon in the late 1800s. (Alternatively, "crow" is a butcher's term for mesentery, an otherwise little-eaten tripe.)

Questions about croweater

What does croweater mean?
Croweater means a person from South Australia.
What part of speech is croweater?
Croweater is a noun.
What is the plural of croweater?
The plural of croweater is croweaters.

Words near croweater in the dictionary

  1. crowdy crawns
  2. Crowdy Head
  3. crowdy-crawn
  4. crowdy-crawns
  5. Crowe
  6. croweater
  7. croweaters
  8. crowed
  9. crowed over
  10. Crowell
  11. Crowells

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