rice eater

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English

Noun

rice eater (plural rice eaters)

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.

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