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Synonyms for eater

Grammar : Noun
Spell : eet
Phonetic Transcription : it

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Définition of eater

Origin :
  • Old English etan (class V strong verb; past tense æt, past participle eten) "to eat, devour, consume," from Proto-Germanic *etanan (cf. Old Frisian ita, Old Saxon etan, Middle Dutch eten, Dutch eten, Old High German ezzan, German essen, Old Norse eta, Gothic itan), from PIE root *ed- "to eat" (see edible).
  • Transferred sense of "slow, gradual corrosion or destruction" is from 1550s. Meaning "to preoccupy, engross" (as in what's eating you?) first recorded 1893. Slang sexual sense of "do cunnilingus on" is first recorded 1927. Eat out "dine away from home" is from 1933. The slang phrase to eat one's words is from 1570s; to eat one's heart out is from 1590s; for eat one's hat, see hat.
  • noun one who consumes food
Example sentences :
  • That eater of swine aimed a blow at my face with his unclean fist.
  • Extract from : « An Outcast of the Islands » by Joseph Conrad
  • He wouldn't like it to get about that he had been intimate with an eater of men—a common cannibal.
  • Extract from : « Falk » by Joseph Conrad
  • Scarcely one of these people is to be met with who is not an eater of coca—a “coquero.”
  • Extract from : « The Forest Exiles » by Mayne Reid
  • A knowledge that the eater may in his turn be eaten, is not appetizing.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 » by Various
  • We were in Jericho when he discovered the eater of grasshoppers.
  • Extract from : « The Temptation of St. Antony » by Gustave Flaubert
  • Scarcely one of these people is to be met with who is not an eater of cocoa—a “coquero.”
  • Extract from : « Popular Adventure Tales » by Mayne Reid
  • "That's why you warned us that he was such an eater," cried Clive.
  • Extract from : « King of Ranleigh » by F. S. (Frederick Sadlier) Brereton
  • It is useless to attempt an idealization of the Hawaiian eater.
  • Extract from : « Summer Cruising in the South Seas » by Charles Warren Stoddard
  • Foods pass in and out of the relation to eater with no change in their own traits.
  • Extract from : « Essays in Experimental Logic » by John Dewey
  • Yon man does not look like an enemy of the gods, or an eater of childrens flesh.
  • Extract from : « Darkness and Dawn » by Frederic W. Farrar
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