grass-eater
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.37 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A celibate man, especially a Japanese man, who eschews dating and sexual relationships.
Derogatory; Slang
Example Sentences
- "But why do police become grass-eaters at all, if they lack the greed and contempt fo decency necessary to become meat-eaters?"
- "It was the grass-eaters, the commission found, that made corruption respectable within the organization, encouraging a code of silence among officers."
- "Grass-eaters constituted the majority of police officers who were corrupt; meat-eaters were rare. But meat-eaters are more dangerous. They aggressively misuse their police powers for personal gain."
- "That is what the modern men of Japan have done, these grass-eaters."
- "The grass-eaters fail to maintain a 'manly' appearance, snared instead by the world of cosmetics and fashion which makes them look soft, 'fragile and girlie' ([…])."
- "She dubbed them “herbivore men” (shoshoku danshi) in a 2006 article, and the phrase caught on as the nation took note of the gentle grass-eaters. Their lesser-known counterparts are the “carnivore women” (nikushoku joshi) who take the initiative in life and love."
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Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Law.