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English
Etymology
From man + eating.
Adjective
maneating (not comparable)
- Alternative form of man-eating
1907, Fur-fish-game, volumes 5-6, page 129:Well known maneating tigers were killed in several districts.
- 1959, John Taylor, Maneaters and marauders, snippet
- A big maneating croc had appeared in the lagoon of Lifumba
1998, Stephen P Fishelman, The Measure of Man, page 84:They reflect what we are, maneating gods the gods of maneating men, beautiful Olympians the gods of the first humanists.
Noun
maneating (uncountable)
- The consumption of human flesh by animals
1993, Arjan Singh, The legend of the maneater, page 83:Corbett described maneating as the compulsive seeking of human flesh by carnivores
2002, Hans Kruuk, Hunter and hunted: relationships between carnivores and people, page 75:In general, maneating is only an infinitesimally small factor of mortality amongst people.
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