rice-eater

Noun

rice-eater (plural rice-eaters)

1. One whose diet uses rice as a staple, as opposed to wheat or some other grain.
   • The beneficial effects alleged to result from the addition of vitamin B₁ to the diet of the rice-eater suffering from beri-beri are not necessarily due so much to the low level of this vitamin in the diet, but rather to the enhanced value of this vitamin by virtue of the peculiar combination...1951, Joseph Gillman, Theodor Gillman, Perspectives in Human Malnutrition
   • The main difference lies in the fact that the bread-eater usually eats a more varied diet and seldom depends upon bread to so great an extent as the rice-eater depends upon rice.1956, Institute for Medical Research (Malaysia), Annual Report of the Institute for Medical Research, page 26
2. (derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur) A person who is Asian or of Asian descent.
   • He's won his last battle. He failed to win the Korean War. He couldn't win it. He had to sign a truce. That's a loss. Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice-eaters, he's lost the battle.2011, Timothy McCarthy, John McMillian, The Radical Reader, →ISBN
   • These little fellows have already built themselves a sort of rice-eater intelligence network from Richmond, Springvale and Footscray, rightthrough to Cabramatta in NSW and Fortitude Valley in Queensland.2012, Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read, Chopper Unchopped, →ISBN