lotus-eater
Americannoun
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Classical Mythology. a member of a people whom Odysseus found existing in a state of languorous forgetfulness induced by their eating of the fruit of the legendary lotus; one of the lotophagi.
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a person who leads a life of dreamy, indolent ease, indifferent to the busy world; daydreamer.
noun
Etymology
Origin of lotus-eater
First recorded in 1660–80; singular of lotus-eaters, translation of Latin Lōtophagī, from Greek Lōtophágoi, noun use of masculine plural adjective lōtophágos “lotus-eating.” See lotus, -phagous
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He was still lost in the dreams of the lotus-eater when he heard something that resembled the rattling of his own noisy car.
From Penny of Top Hill Trail by Philip Lyford
The fabled lotus-eater wished never to leave the isle whence he had plucked it.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. by Various
If one has been a lotus-eater all summer, he must turn gravel-eater in the fall and winter.
From Winter Sunshine by John Burroughs
About it were chairs and divans that would have satisfied a lotus-eater.
From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes
How they got home you must read in Homer:—Mr. Tennyson—himself, we presume, a dreamy lotus-eater, a delicious lotus-eater—leaves them in full song.
From Early Reviews of English Poets by John Louis Haney
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