rice eater meaning: definition, quotations

rice eater

nounalso spelled rice-eater

› Alternative form of rice-eater.

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:
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:

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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:

Asian.

"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:

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But I still don't trust this sorry slant eyed rice eater.2010, Edward Cerda, Full Moon, →ISBN:

noun

One whose diet uses rice as a staple, as opposed to wheat or some other grain.

The beneficial effects alleged to result from the addition of vitamin B₁ to the diet of the rice-eater suffering from beri-beri are not necessarily due so much to the low level of this vitamin in the diet, but rather to the enhanced value of this vitamin by virtue of the peculiar combination...1951, Joseph Gillman, Theodor Gillman, Perspectives in Human Malnutrition:
The main difference lies in the fact that the bread-eater usually eats a more varied diet and seldom depends upon bread to so great an extent as the rice-eater depends upon rice.1956, Institute for Medical Research (Malaysia), Annual Report of the Institute for Medical Research, page 26:

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But the people to whom he brought the life-giving stuffs were rice-eaters. They knew how to hull rice in their mortars, but they knew nothing of the heavy stone querns of the North, and less of the material that the white man convoyed so laboriously.2012, Khushwant Singh, Kipling's India, →ISBN:

Derogatory, Ethnic, Offensive, Slang, Slur A person who is Asian or of Asian descent.

He's won his last battle. He failed to win the Korean War. He couldn't win it. He had to sign a truce. That's a loss. Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice-eaters, he's lost the battle.2011, Timothy McCarthy, John McMillian, The Radical Reader, →ISBN:
These little fellows have already built themselves a sort of rice-eater intelligence network from Richmond, Springvale and Footscray, rightthrough to Cabramatta in NSW and Fortitude Valley in Queensland.2012, Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read, Chopper Unchopped, →ISBN:

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All you rice-eaters are cunning, shifty little shits, aren't you?2014, JR Carroll, Cheaters, →ISBN:
I've heard my share of racial slurs of Jap, Pearl Harbor, Slant-eyed gook, rice-eater, Geisha Girl, chopstick chick and others. I just wanted to slug somebody!2015, Harry Anderson Jr., Sandra’s Saga Matthew’s World: A Story of a Bi-Racial Family, →ISBN: