English Explanatory Dictionary

croweater

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A person from South Australia.

Pronunciation

En-au-croweater.ogg

Word forms

croweater croweaters crow eater crow-eater

Etymology

From crow + eater. Early settlers in South Australia were alleged to have eaten the breast meat of crows, parrots and cockatoos when there was a shortage of red meat. The term entered the lexicon in the late 1800s. (Alternatively, "crow" is a butcher's term for mesentery, an otherwise little-eaten tripe.)

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