| 单词 | bread-eater |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbread-eater a. A person who eats; also with up, a consumer, devourer, and with object noun prefixed, as bread-eater, flesh-eater. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > [noun] > eater eatera1000 repaster1517 feeder1550 moutha1553 dieter1577 trencherman1590 assument1657 eatress1834 grubber1838 pecker1862 nosher1917 a1000 Prov. 18 (Bosw.) Eteras, commessatores. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 47 Ase byeþ þe mochele drinkeres and eteres. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 267/2 Thou etar of porrete wene thou to take me out of myn hows? 1483 Cath. Angl. 118 An Eter, comestor. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xxxvi. 13 Thou art an eater vp of men, and a waister of thy people. 1639 J. Shirley Maides Revenge iii. sig. F3 Doe I looke like a Spider-catcher, or Toade-eater? 1710 Fuller Tatler No. 205. ⁋2 [I] always speak of them with the Distinction of the Eaters, and the Swallowers. 1807 R. Wilson Jrnl. 7 June in Life Gen. Sir R. Wilson (1862) II. viii. 253 We slept like pudding-eaters. 1837 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. (1842) VI. vii. 95 It severs the fruit from the eater. < as lemmas |
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