单词 | shit-eater |
释义 | shit-eatern. coarse slang (originally U.S.). 1. derogatory. A contemptible, despicable, or worthless person. ΚΠ 1935 H. Cobb Paths of Glory 133 All right, eater of horse dung.] 1937 M. Levin Old Bunch 160 You made me lose my fare, you lousy baboon-faced s— eater. 1962 J. Jones Thin Red Line 243 Leave me alone! You shiteater! Stay away from me! 1977 O. Lewis et al. Four Women i. vi. 100 You're nothing but a shit-eater. 1998 D. F. Wallace in Harper's Mag. Jan. 62/1 The..whiny spoiled self-involved snaggletoothed pig-nosed fat-thighed pathetic shiteater. 2001 R. Russo Empire Falls i. vii. 123 Most people, he concluded, were selfish, greedy, unprincipled, venal, utterly irredeemable shit-eaters. 2. A person who or animal which eats faeces. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating specific substances or food > [noun] > eating excrement > eater of excrement scatophagian1569 coprophagist1887 shit-eater1962 1962 G. Snyder Let. 22 Nov. in A. Ginsberg & G. Snyder Sel. Lett. (2009) 62 Certain religious meditation traditions..are thus insane but functioning. Like maybe some of the weird 18th century sadhu schools of shit-eaters and cannibals may have been. 1968 ‘A. d'Arcangelo’ Homosexual Handbk. 132 ‘People stalking about in leather snowsuits? Transvestites? Lust-maddened caphropagists [i.e. coprophagists] on the rampage?’ ‘What are caphropagists?’.. ‘Shit eaters!’ I said with a fiendish leer. 1987 K. J. Reckford Aristophanes' Old-and-new Comedy i. 9 There is a..grotesque suggestion that the Athenians were kept on a diet of shit,..like the monstrous ‘shit-eater’ Cleon himself. 2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 27 Apr. 47/4 A type of crab which, ‘in honour of its gastronomic preferences’, is called a ‘shit-eater’. 3. = shit-eating grin at shit-eating adj. 1. Also more fully shit-eater grin. ΚΠ 1965 E. Hoagland Peacock's Tail 129 He gazed beyond the lobby with the shit-eater's grin he had worn before.] 1975 E. Schiddel Swing i. 29 Smile for the camera... All the teeth—give them a real shit-eater. 1993 T. E. Kakonis Shadow Counter 228 They'd find him in the morning with a shiteater all over his face. 1997 Y. M. Murray Locas 42 Her lips jumped up in a fast shit-eater grin so I know she's nervous. 2008 D. Poyer Weapon (2009) 157 He stepped back onto the path, rubbing his palms on his thighs and smiling, a huge shit-eater stretching the skin of his face. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1937 |
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