beaver eater

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Etymology 1

beaver (“rodent”) + eater.

Noun

beaver eater (plural beaver eaters)

1. (obsolete, Canada, US) A wolverine.

   Synonyms: carcajou, quickhatch

   • 1791, John Long, Voyages and Travels (2006 reprint), page 132:

     ...we baled up our peltry, and on the 23d of May left Lac la Mort, with four small birch canoes richly laden with the skins of beavers, otters, martens, minx, loup serviers, beaver eaters, foxes, bears, &c.

   • 1819, D. B. Warden, A statistical, political, and historical account of the United States of North America, volume I, pages 200–201:

     This animal, which is known in Canada by the name of Carcajou, and the Beaver Eater, is of a clumsy appearance, about a foot and a half high ...

2. (slang, derogatory) A Canadian person, especially a French Canadian.

   Synonym: Canuck

   • 1995 October 21, William Feader, “Re: Please return to France”, in bc.general‎^[1] (Usenet):

     Listen you damned frog. I am the 12'th great grandson of United Empire loyalist s^[sic] who were in these lands 30 years after Cartier landed at Quebec City. […] How dare you, so snivelling little french beaver eater.

   • 1997 March 26, Tom Evans, “Re: IMMINENT Invasion of Canada”, in can.general‎^[2] (Usenet):

     Tell him to follow his nose to Buffalo. We're en garde 40 miles north. Of course we're ready for the likes of the Grubby Corp. We will *never* surrender. […]
     --
     flag waving beaver eater from the north

   • 2001 July 8, Tiny Human Ferret, “Re: Population Growth = Disaster”, in alt.org.sierra-club‎^[3] (Usenet):

     Which country is that? I seem to notice that you've left Canada out. Be sure to send some nasty e-mail to Prime Minister Poutine, condemning Canada's lack of cultural supremacism. Why, those beaver-eaters don't even have movable-type democracies based on "Pi"!

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3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beaver,‎ eater.
   • 1992, New York, volume 25, numbers 14–17, page 102:

     Mann & Machine isn't, alas, as wonderfully inventive as Alien Nation, with its slave-ship freak culture of two-hearted, milk-drinking beaver eaters who hummed at one another prior to sex.

Etymology 2

beaver (“vulva or public hair near a vulva”) + eater.

Noun

beaver eater (plural beaver eaters)

1. (slang) Someone who performs cunnilingus.

   Synonyms: carpet muncher, cunnilinguist, gap-lapper, muff diver

   • 2000 August 23, dennywS...@zipcon.net, “Re: {ASSD} Again with the oral sex questions”, in alt.sex.stories.d‎^[4] (Usenet):

     [>I spent years thinking fellatio was just fabulous, loved going down on men, but that anyone going down on me was just a terrible idea. Until I met someone who really wanted to do it, promised me he wouldn't bite, and pretty much begged me for the opportunity. Couldn't pass that up. ;)]
     And here's the 'eager' beaver-eater. <g>

   • 2005, Frank Bond Beaumier, Sex Cults and Other Phenomena, volume II, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 79:

     He said calmly, "With you my dear. Certainly, I as a writer of passing panorama take more of a worldly attitude when it comes to going down, talking the beaver, liberal to a fault, inclined to say live and let live. No, I'm not a religious fanatic, ora sex nut, but you can place me in the confirmed beaver eater category. […] "

   • 2014, Antonio García-Gómez, “Deconstructing ‘Mean Girls’: Impolite Verbal Behaviours, On/Offline Self-Representations and Evaluative Beliefs”, in Antonia Sánchez Macarro, Ana Belén Cabrejas Peñuelas, editors, New Insights into Gendered Discursive Practices: Language, Gender and Identity Construction (English in the World Series), Valencia: Universitat de València, →ISBN, page unknown:

     Written on Participant 7's Facebook wall by Participant 8 […]
     7: You don't know me
     8: I know you're a beaver eater ]

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