| 单词 | cake eater |
| 释义 | > as lemmascake eater cake eater n. (a) a person who or animal which eats cake; (b) U.S. slang (usually depreciative) a man or boy regarded as self-indulgent or effeminate, esp. (in early use) one who attends fashionable tea parties; a person (typically a wealthy man) who leads a life of pleasure or idleness. [In quot. 1791 glossing Sitophagus, a name given to a mouse < ancient Greek σιτόφαγος that eats corn or bread.] ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating specific substances or food > [noun] > eating of other substances > eaters of other substances fig-eater1552 cheese eater1603 oat-eatera1668 bean-eater1710 cake eater1791 gag-eater1820 haggis-eater1834 gum-chewer1850 pie-biter1863 nut-eater1878 toxiphagus- society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > self-interest > [noun] > selfishness > self-pleasing or self-indulgence > self-indulgent person self-pleaser1582 indulger1648 suist1649 self-indulger1681 cake eater1916 1791 W. Cowper in tr. Homer Iliad & Odyssey II. 581 (note) The cake-eater, who lies in wait for bread. 1888 J. Fothergill Lasses of Leverhouse 178 We each had to supply, on an average, five tablesful of tea-drinkers and cake-eaters. 1916 B. Hall Diary 24 June in B. Hall & J. Niles One Man's War (1929) xix. 148 They've turned you from a snake-stomper into a cake-eater and soon you'll be a duke or count or something. 1922 Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Okla.) 6 Jan. 10/4 He calls us ‘lounge lizards, tea drinkers, cake eaters and all that’. 1995 J. Stahl Permanent Midnight (1997) iv. 125 Mt. Lebo, see, was where the rich lived... Kids in Mt. Lebanon wore buttoned-down shirts and penny loafers... Mt. Lebanon was home to ‘cake eaters’. 2016 Telegraph-Jrnl. (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 15 Oct. c1 ‘I'm not a big cake eater,’ says Stamp, ‘but this is the one cake that I'll keep eating..until I have to get somebody to hide it from me.’ < as lemmas |
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