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

Word History and Origins

Origin of man-eating¹

First recorded in 1600–10

Example Sentences

I ducked into “A Useful Ghost” on a whim, wondering how it would pair with TIFF’s world premiere of “Dust Bunny,” a nice and nasty Roald Dahl-esque adventure in which a little girl hires Mads Mikkelsen to battle a man-eating monster under her bed.

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Sharks had been swimming in the culture before that, to be sure, often with the prefix “man-eating” appended, though men eat sharks too, and way more often — so who’s the real apex predator?

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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.

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

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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."

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