croweater

noun

Etymology

From crow + eater. Early settlers in South Australia were alleged to have eaten the breast meat of crows, parrots and cockatoos when there was a shortage of red meat. The term entered the lexicon in the late 1800s. (Alternatively, "crow" is a butcher's term for mesentery, an otherwise little-eaten tripe.)

  1. inherited from etere
  2. inherited from eter
  3. compounded as croweater — “crow + eater

Definitions

  1. A person from South Australia.

    • In those days we would play the Croweaters on a Tuesday night over in Adelaide.
    • In the event, Carlton′s ‘worm’, Alex Jesaulenko, was comprehensively upstaged by his croweater rival, Barrie Robran, who in the end probably proved the decisive difference between the two sides.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA