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单词 clay-eater
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clay-eater
clay-eater n. U.S. (see quot. a1860).
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1841 W. G. Simms Scout (1882) 153 He was..a jaundiced..‘clay-eater’ from the Wassamasaw country.
a1860 Ida May in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Clay-eaters, a miserable set of people inhabiting some of the Southern States, who subsist chiefly on turpentine whiskey, and appease their craving for more substantial food by filling their stomachs with a kind of aluminous earth which abounds everywhere..They are looked down upon by the negroes with a contempt which they return by a hearty hatred.
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