| 单词 | rice eater |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrice eater rice eater n. a person who habitually or frequently eats rice; esp. (derogatory and offensive) a person from South or South-East Asia. ΚΠ 1814 School for Good Living 229 What means of conversion can they more effectually employ, than by setting before these poor unsophisticated rice eaters the superior excellencies of the European kitchen? 1859 K. Cornwallis Panorama New World I. 307 The Chinese immigrants consisted entirely of males... So much for the rice-eaters. 1921 Sci. Monthly July 73 We find..that beriberi is most common in rice eaters, and that pellagra is usually associated with maize. 2002 E. White Fast Girls ix. 178 Dee is a..Vietnamese woman living in San Francisco... ‘They called me a gook and a rice eater.’ < as lemmas |
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