grasseater
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "When the "green mouths," as the impoverished Irish grasseaters were dubbed, entered the United States, they brought cholera, consumption, and typhus with them."
- "And most of those grasseaters like horses, ox, camels, and llamas had shown early appearance on earth and since its early Cainozoic."
- "Founded in 1898, when vegetarians were regarded as “grasseaters,” this restaurant has more than proved its staying power."
Etymology
From grass + eater. Originally in reference to the Irish potato famine, implying that grass was all the Irish had left in their diet.