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rice eater

rice eater noun: one who eats rice as a dietary staple.

Noun

rice eater (plural rice eaters)

  1. One who eats rice as a dietary staple.
    • The beef eater needs a knife and a fork, while the rice eater does not.1928, Frederick Elmore Lumley, Principles of Sociology, page 36
    • The problem of the rice eater has two solutions. He can change his staple food from rice to bread; or he can reduce his consumption of rice and increase that of his fish, vegetable and meat food.1953, Francisco Ortigas, Planting Rice is Never Fun, page 108
  2. Asian.
    • "They called me a gook and a rice eater." Yet right beneath or simultaneous with the racial harassment, the slut story took shape.2002, Emily White, Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Slut, →ISBN, page 178
    • “No khampa lets a damned rice eater beat him.” He laughed and looked around. No one joined.2008, Eliot Pattison, The Skull Mantra, →ISBN

Examples of rice eater in a sentence

  • At that time, I didn't think to ask how he, a rice eater, could have been forced to eat bread.1993, Kathleen Aguero, Daily Fare: Essays from the Multicultural Experience, →ISBN, page 174:
  • But I still don't trust this sorry slant eyed rice eater.2010, Edward Cerda, Full Moon, →ISBN:

Forms of rice eater

pluralrice eaters

Questions about rice eater

What does rice eater mean?
Rice eater means one who eats rice as a dietary staple.
How do you use rice eater in a sentence?
At that time, I didn't think to ask how he, a rice eater, could have been forced to eat bread.
What part of speech is rice eater?
Rice eater is a noun.
What is the plural of rice eater?
The plural of rice eater is rice eaters.

Words near rice eater in the dictionary

  1. rice crackers
  2. rice cutgrass
  3. rice cutgrasses
  4. Rice distribution
  5. Rice distributions
  6. rice eater
  7. rice eaters
  8. rice field
  9. rice fields
  10. rice flake
  11. rice flakes

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