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man-eating [man-ee-ting] ExamplesWord Origin See more synonyms for man-eating on Thesaurus.com adjective
- feeding on or having an appetite for human flesh: a man-eating tiger.
Origin of man-eating First recorded in 1600–10 Related Words for man-eating carnivorous, ferocious, murderous, creophagous Examples from the Web for man-eating Contemporary Examples of man-eating
In the course of her remarkable travels Thecla baptizes herself by diving into a pool of “man-eating seals.”
First Anglican Woman Bishop A Return to Christian Roots
Candida Moss
December 18, 2014
The marauding, man-eating Titans are mutated, androgynous beasts that have no need to feed but love to kill.
This Author Kills More Darlings Than George R.R. Martin
David Levesley
September 24, 2014
Our pond is short on man-eating sharks, but I can set bear traps on the bottom.
P. J. O’Rourke
July 27, 2014
And if you can work in man-eating hippopotami, sexy vampires, or a robot that shoots lasers out of its eyes, all the better.
Noah Charney
June 5, 2013
Her latest role is a small but powerful one, and does plenty to erase any memories of her cosmo-swilling, man-eating alter-ego.
The Yes List: A Sex and the City Star Strips Down
The Daily Beast
April 8, 2011
Historical Examples of man-eating
He had been relating a thrilling adventure with a man-eating tiger.
George MacDonald
The man-eating tiger and the rogue-elephant are the devils of their kind.
George MacDonald
He is a black Napoleon, a head-hunting, man-eating Talleyrand.
Jack London
This is the chief station of the French on the man-eating isle of Hiva-oa.
Robert Louis Stevenson
How’s the boy wonder, the only man-eating Dink in captivity?
Owen Johnson
British Dictionary definitions for man-eating man-eating adjective
- eating human flesh
- informal (of a woman) having many lovers