rice eater

rice eater

English

Noun

rice eater (plural rice eaters)

1. Alternative form of rice-eater
   1. One who eats rice as a dietary staple.
      • 1928, Frederick Elmore Lumley, Principles of Sociology, page 36:

        The beef eater needs a knife and a fork, while the rice eater does not.

      • 1953, Francisco Ortigas, Planting Rice is Never Fun, page 108:

        The problem of the rice eater has two solutions. He can change his staple food from rice to bread; or he can reduce his consumption of rice and increase that of his fish, vegetable and meat food.

      • 1993, Kathleen Aguero, Daily Fare: Essays from the Multicultural Experience, →ISBN, page 174:

        At that time, I didn't think to ask how he, a rice eater, could have been forced to eat bread.

   2. Asian.
      • 2002, Emily White, Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Slut, →ISBN, page 178:

        "They called me a gook and a rice eater." Yet right beneath or simultaneous with the racial harassment, the slut story took shape.

      • 2008, Eliot Pattison, The Skull Mantra, →ISBN:

        “No khampa lets a damned rice eater beat him.” He laughed and looked around. No one joined.

      • 2010, Edward Cerda, Full Moon, →ISBN:

        But I still don't trust this sorry slant eyed rice eater.