rice-eaters

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
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