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eater

eater

125 1.0
A person or animal that eats food to live
  • noun
  • /ˈiːtər/
: comedor
  • If you want to lose weight, it's important to become a mindful eater and pay attention to portion sizes.
  • meat eaters
  • binge eaters
  • fish eaters

And, and I'm an eater, not a cooker, but both are important.

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Examples

  • "You probably think I am some big eater, big as I am.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • Chicken eaters in the United States prefer white meat; chicken eaters in South Africa prefer dark meat.

    Academic text (2005)
  • You strike me as a meat eater.

  • I'm a stress eater, it's not going to hit me like right when I go in right?

  • And I always say to not be a fussy eater because it's so frustrating.

  • And Mark's a pretty careful eater, and he still has significant amounts of glyphosate in himself.

  • And I've been such a healthy eater that I felt guilty about my munching.

  • Andre says he's always been a healthy eater and is very active as a fire department captain.

  • Matisse is a picky eater.

  • Meat eater.

Compounds

man-eater
  • NSFW
7 9.8

A person who eats other people

5 8.6

A performer who puts fire into their mouth to entertain people

5 7.7

A large aggressive shark that attacks people

4 3.0

A person who eats a lot of food

potato eater
  • Informal
1 3.9

A person who likes to eat potatoes and other simple comfort food

1 6.9

A person who eats mostly plants and simple foods without meat

1 8.2

A brightly colored bird that catches and eats bees and other insects in flight

pie-eater
  • Informal
1 9.3

A person who likes to eat pies

lotus-eater
  • Literature
1 9.9

A person who avoids work and lives only for pleasure

rice-eater
  • Slur
1 9.3

A person who regularly eats rice, sometimes used jokingly or as an insult

fire-eater
  • Offensive
1 8.8

A person who speaks angrily and likes to start political arguments

honey eater
  • Australian
1 8.8

A bird that uses a long thin beak to drink nectar from flowers

1 9.8

A warm dry wind that quickly melts snow on mountain slopes

turd-eater
  • Offensive
1 9.9

A rude name for someone who lies and spreads rumors

beaver eater
  • Informal
9.9

A joking name for a person who says they eat beaver meat

quiche-eater
  • Offensive
8.6

A person who likes to eat quiche and is seen as fashionable

How Hungry

glutton
  • Offensive
15 7.0
big eater
4 3.0
eater
125 1.0
grazer
1 4.9

Surface Forms

eater singular
eaters plural

Morphology

eater = eat (transparent) = eat + er

A productive agentive suffix '-er' added to the verb 'eat' yields 'one who eats', which is directly recoverable by learners.

Etymology

The word eater is made from the simple verb eat, which means 'to eat', plus the ending -er that means 'one who'. So an eater is simply 'one who eats', a person or animal that eats food.