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rice eater en · NOUN

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1. Alternative form of rice-eater. ▸ 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:
   • 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:
2. Alternative form of rice-eater. ▸ Asian.
   • “No khampa lets a damned rice eater beat him.” He laughed and looked around. No one joined. 2008, Eliot Pattison, The Skull Mantra, →ISBN:
   • "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:
   • But I still don't trust this sorry slant eyed rice eater. 2010, Edward Cerda, Full Moon, →ISBN:

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