| 释义 |
ˈdirt-eater
One who eats dirt: see next. spec. one of a class of ‘poor whites’ in some parts of the southern United States; = clay-eater (clay n. 9).
1802Beddoes Hygëia viii. 70 The dirt-eaters of the West-Indies. 1840C. F. Hoffman Greyslaer iii. xii. 223 Even Bettys, little fastidious as he was, recoiled from the fare which these ‘Dirt Eaters’, as the Indians called them, placed before him. 1866Ret. Agric. Soc. Maine 46 It rests with you..whether you will take rank with the poor whites, the dirt-eaters of the South, or with the best classes of the north. 1940R. O. Cummings American & his Food 87 Distinguished from other southerners by hookworm disease were dirt-eaters scattered in sand barrens and pine woods from South Carolina to Mississippi. |
