rice-eater

noun

Definitions

  1. One whose diet uses rice as a staple, as opposed to wheat or some other grain.

    • The main difference lies in the fact that the bread-eater usually eats a more varied diet and seldom depends upon bread to so great an extent as the rice-eater depends upon rice.
  2. A person who is Asian or of Asian descent.

    • He's won his last battle. He failed to win the Korean War. He couldn't win it. He had to sign a truce. That's a loss. Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice-eaters, he's lost the battle.
    • These little fellows have already built themselves a sort of rice-eater intelligence network from Richmond, Springvale and Footscray, rightthrough to Cabramatta in NSW and Fortitude Valley in Queensland.
    • All you rice-eaters are cunning, shifty little shits, aren't you?

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