rice eater

plural rice eaters

1. Alternative form of rice-eater.
   1. One who eats rice as a dietary staple.

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

      1928, Frederick Elmore Lumley, Principles of Sociology, page 36

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      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.

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

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

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

   2. Asian.

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

      2010, Edward Cerda, Full Moon, →ISBN

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

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

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

      2008, Eliot Pattison, The Skull Mantra, →ISBN