man-eater

Definitions

1. An animal that attacks and kills humans for food, such as certain tigers or sharks; any animal that consumes human flesh.
2. A carnivorous plant large enough to consume a human; a man-eating plant.
3. A cannibal; a human that eats other humans.
4. A seductive dangerous woman, often readily taking and discarding male romantic partners.
   broadly, slang

Equivalents

19 more languages

Azərbaycan diliadamyeyən

Bosanskikaniballjudožderљудождер

Češtinakaniballidojedlidožrout

Suomiihmissyöjämiehennielijämiestennielijäsyöjätär+ 1 more

हिन्दीनरभक्षकनरभक्षी

Hrvatskikaniballjudožderљудождер

Հայերենմարդակեր

Bahasa Indonesiakanibal

Íslenskamannæta

Italianomangiauomini

Kurdîkanîbal

Latinaanthropophagus

Te Reo Māorikaitangata

Македонскичовекојадец

Polskiantropofagkaniballudojadludożerca+ 1 more

Русскийканнибаллюдое́дрокова́я же́нщинасердцее́дка+ 1 more

Српскиkaniballjudožderљудождер

Svenskaantropofagmänniskoätaremanslukerska

Українськалюдоже́рлюдої́дсироїд

Examples

“And particularly, he knows where to find⟳ the primitive substance of the man eater: howsoever evaporate or reduced, as it were, into air or vapour, by sweat⟳ or perspiration.”

“Man-eaters are more newsworthy than three-foot-long harmless sharks with tiny teeth.”

“His origin amongst monsters and man-eaters signals the play's recurrent concerns with monstrification, with eating others or being eaten by them, and with issues of specularity […]”

“For how a race⟳ of Man-eaters should spring⟳ up in these islands, when none of the nations on the continents from whence they must derive their original are charged with these savage customs, is not easy to conceive[.]”

“A stout ferocious-looking fellow, with muscular bandy legs, came in as I was conversing on the subject of cannibalism, and was pointed out to me as a celebrated marksman and man eater.”

“"That only proves she has affairs with them too. She's a man-eater."”

“Watch⟳ out, boy, she'll chew you up (Oh-oh, here she comes) She's a maneater”

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