English Explanatory Dictionary

cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Someone who cheats.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater.wav

Word forms

cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater cheater, cheater, pumpkin eaters

Etymology

Based on a traditional children's rhyme: "Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater, / Had a wife and couldn't keep her; / He put her in a pumpkin shell, / And there he kept her very well."

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