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shit-eater, n. coarse slang (orig. U.S.).
Brit. |ˈʃɪtˌiːtə|, U.S. |ˈʃɪtˌidər|
[‹ shit n. + eater n. Compare to eat shit at eat v. Additions]
1. derogatory. A contemptible, despicable, or worthless person.
[1935H. Cobb Paths of Glory 133 All right, eater of horse dung.] 1937M. Levin Old Bunch 160 You made me lose my fare, you lousy baboon-faced s— eater. 1977O. Lewis et al. Four Women i. vi. 100 You're nothing but a shit-eater. 1998D. F. Wallace in Harper's Mag. Jan. 62/1 The..whiny spoiled self-involved snaggletoothed pig-nosed fat-thighed pathetic shiteater. 2001R. 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.
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. 1987K. 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. 2000N.Y. Rev. Bks. 27 Apr. 47/4 A type of crab which, ‘in honour of its gastronomic preferences’, is called a ‘shit-eater’. |
