51Թ

Advertisement

Advertisement

View synonyms for

man-eating

[man-ee-ting]

adjective

  1. feeding on or having an appetite for human flesh.

    a man-eating tiger.



man-eating

adjective

  1. eating human flesh

  2. informal(of a woman) having many lovers

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Discover More

51Թ History and Origins

Origin of man-eating1

First recorded in 1600–10
Discover More

Example Sentences

Examples have not been reviewed.

Mary is a whiskey-smuggling alcoholic and man-eating cabaret amateur, so dead bored in her marriage that she wishes her husband were dead himself.

From

In “Delicious in Dungeon,” a ragtag adventuring crew makes hot pot out of man-eating mushrooms.

From

He wrote that she displayed "the man-eating weed of Humanistic Mercy" that was "enabled by the feminist denial of the complementary design and callings of men and women."

From

For readers unfamiliar with “The Boys,” the Prime Video series has earned quite the reputation for its gory dark humor; think exploding genitalia and man-eating, flying sheep.

From

But it took an interviewer calling her a "man-eating, confident assassin" to realise "if that's what people think of me then I need to be more open and let people in".

From

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement


man-eaterman-eating shark