maneating
See also: man-eating
English
Etymology
Adjective
maneating (not comparable)
- Alternative form of man-eating
- 1907, Fur-fish-game, Volumes 5-6, page 129
- Well known maneating tigers were killed in several districts.
- 1959, John Taylor, Maneaters and marauders, snippet
- A big maneating croc had appeared in the lagoon of Lifumba
- 1998, Stephen P Fishelman, The Measure of Man, page 84
- They reflect what we are, maneating gods the gods of maneating men, beautiful Olympians the gods of the first humanists.
- 1907, Fur-fish-game, Volumes 5-6, page 129
Noun
maneating (uncountable)
- The consumption of human flesh by animals
- 1993, Arjan Singh, The legend of the maneater, page 83
- Corbett described maneating as the compulsive seeking of human flesh by carnivores
- 2002, Hans Kruuk, Hunter and hunted: relationships between carnivores and people, page 75
- In general, maneating is only an infinitesimally small factor of mortality amongst people.
- 1993, Arjan Singh, The legend of the maneater, page 83