grass-eater

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An organism notable for eating grass
  2. A celibate man, especially a Japanese man, who eschews dating and sexual relationships. derogatory,slang
    — That is what the modern men of Japan have done, these grass-eaters.
  3. An organism notable for eating grass; A fish of species Distichodus rostratus or Distichodus engycephalus, of Africa
  4. A police officer who accepts offered bribes but does not actively seek them out. figuratively
    — But why do police become grass-eaters at all, if they lack the greed and contempt fo decency necessary to become meat-eaters?

词形变化

grass-eaters plural grass-eaters plural

词源

词源 1
From grass + eater; applied to bribe-accepting polics by the Knapp Commission in the 1970s.
词源 2
Calque of Japanese 草食系男子 (sōshokukei danshi, “herbivorous/grass-eating male”).
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