eater

Definition of eater in English English dictionary: Agent noun of eat; one who eats; {n} one who or what eats, a corrosive; someone who consumes food for nourishment; One who, or that which, eats; You use eater to refer to someone who eats in a particular way or who eats particular kinds of food. I've never been a fussy eater vegetarians and meat eaters. big/light/fussy etc eater someone who eats a lot, not much, only particular things etc; any green goods that are good to eat; "these apples are good eaters" someone who consumes food for nourishment; any green goods that are good to eat; "these apples are good eaters"; {i} consumer, one who eats, one who devours; One who eats
bean-eater: a Mexican (ethnic slur)
bee-eater: Any of various brightly-coloured, insectivorous, near-passerine birds in the family Meropidae, especially the European bee-eater, Merops apiaster
binge eater: A person who suffers from binge eating
cake-eater: someone of upper-class background, or who has been excessively well-off
'... We got us a cake eater, right here at the sink!' He turned to me. 'Have you ever had your hands dirty, new kid?'.
cake-eater: a lounge lizard This usage of the term dates from the 1920s, when it vied in popularity with 'sheik' to indicate a slick young Romeo who wows the flappers and likes the high life. A Cake-Eater, when he's not trolling for jazz-babies at the local speakeasy, likes to loiter at a girl's house and be pampered, especially by being served his sweetie's baked goods-- and of course some degree of sexual metaphor might be inferred
crab-eater: A type of fish (see the Wikipedia article.)
crab-eater: A crab-eater seal
crow eater: An inhabitant of South Australia
crow-eater: Attributive form of crow eater, noun
fire-eater: A quarrelsome or belligerent person
fire-eater: An extreme partisan for the South before the US Civil War
Frustrated in their attempts to change the law, fire-eaters turned their efforts to breaking it.
fire-eater: A performer who pretends to swallow fire
flying purple people eater: A fanciful monster
lotus eater: One of the Lotophagi (see Λωτοφάγος)
lotus eater: Someone with an easy life who does not worry about much
man-eater: An animal that has a reputation for eating humans, such as the tiger or shark
man-eater: A cannibal
man-eater: A woman with a threatening attitude, often readily taking and discarding male romantic partners
pie-eater: a person from Wigan in northern England or the surrounding area
quiche-eater: In computer programming circles, a person far removed from practice and concerned only with academic matters, unwilling to "get their hands dirty"
quiche-eater: A man who is effeminate or who lacks some putative masculine virtue
sin eater: A person (usually a man) who is supposed to take sins of a deceased person upon himself by means of eating a piece of bread, laid for him on the breast of the dead one
sin-eater: A person (usually a man) who is supposed to take sins of a deceased person upon himself by means of eating a piece of bread, laid for him on the breast of the dead one
smoke eater: A device or piece of equipment designed to remove smoke from the air
smoke eater: A firefighter
weed eater: A string trimmer
man-eater: an animal that devours human beings
fussy eater: Someone thats so picky about their food and is always complaining about it
beef-eater: {n} a yeoman of the guard, a gross person
death eater: (Edebiyat) In the fictional Harry Potter series, the Death Eaters are a group of wizards and witches, led by the dark wizard Lord Voldemort, who seek to purify the greater Wizarding community of Muggle-borns. They also strive, in achieving their goals, to create a new order through the Ministry of Magic and cause fear through the Wizarding community by terrorising and killing important officials and their other enemies. They battle the Order of the Phoenix. They are the chief antagonists of the Harry Potter series. Some notable Death Eaters include Voldemort himself, Bellatrix Lestrange, Peter Pettigrew, Barty Crouch Jr., and Quirrell. Severus Snape, the Malfoy family and Regulus Black are all reformed Death Eaters
smoke eater: Firefighter
Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater: well known children's nursery rhyme, one of the Mother Goose nursery rhymes
bee eater: colorful chiefly tropical Old World bird having a strong graceful flight; feeds on especially bees
bee-eater: type of bird which feeds on insects
bee-eater: Any of about 25 species of brightly coloured birds (family Meropidae) that feed on bees, wasps, and other insects. They are found throughout tropical and subtropical Eurasia, Africa, and Australasia (one species occasionally reaches the British Isles). Bee-eaters range in length from 6 to 14 in. (15-35 cm). Their bill is moderately long, slightly downcurved, and pointed. Their brilliant plumage is usually predominantly green, but many species are partially coloured with red, yellow, blue, or purple
compulsive eater: one who is addicted to eating, one who is obsessed with food
eaters: plural of eater
fire eater: entertainer who eats fire
fire-eater: a performer who pretends to swallow fire a belligerent grouch
fire-eater: Fire-eaters are performers who put flaming rods into their mouths in order to entertain people. an entertainer who puts burning sticks into his mouth
honey eater: type of bird which feeds on honey
honey eater: Australasian bird with tongue and bill adapted for extracting nectar
lotus eater: person who lives in pleasure and luxury, lazy and indulgent person; person who lived in an indolent and languorous forgetfulness state from eating the fruit or leaf of the lotus (Classical Mythology)
lotus-eater: someone indifferent to the busy world; "in the Odyssey Homer tells of lotus-eaters who live in dreamy indolence
man eater: {i} animal that feeds on human flesh; cannibal; femme fatale, woman who entraps men and endangers them
square eater: ravenous eater, one who eats eagerly

eater

Hyphenation

eat·er

Turkish pronunciation

itır

Pronunciation

/ˈētər/ /ˈiːtɜr/

Etymology

[ 'Et ] (verb.) before 12th century. Middle English eten, from Old English etan; akin to Old High German ezzan to eat, Latin edere, Greek edmenai.

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