Eater vs. Nosher — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Eater and Nosher
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Definitions
Eater
To take into the body by the mouth for digestion or absorption.
Nosher
A snack or light meal.
Eater
To take in and absorb as food
A plant that eats insects.
A cell that eats bacteria.
Nosher
To eat a snack or light meal
Noshed on a bagel between classes.
Eater
To include habitually or by preference in one's diet
A bird that eats insects, fruit, and seeds.
Stopped eating red meat on advice from her doctor.
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Nosher
(colloquial) Someone who noshes; an eater.
Eater
To destroy, ravage, or use up by or as if by ingesting
"Covering news in the field eats money" (George F. Will).
Nosher
Someone who eats lightly or eats snacks between meals
Eater
To erode or corrode
Waves that ate away the beach.
An acid that eats the surface of a machine part.
Eater
To produce by eating
Moths ate holes in our sweaters.
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Eater
(Slang) To absorb the cost or expense of
"You can eat your loss and switch the remaining money to other investment portfolios" (Marlys Harris).
Eater
(Informal) To bother or annoy
What's eating him?.
Eater
Vulgar slang To perform cunnilingus or anilingus on. Often used with out.
Eater
To consume food.
Eater
To have or take a meal.
Eater
To exercise a consuming or eroding effect
A drill that ate away at the rock.
Exorbitant expenses that were eating into profits.
Eater
To cause persistent annoyance or distress
"How long will it be before the frustration eats at you?" (Howard Kaplan).
Eater
A person who eats.
Eater
A fruit or other food that is suitable for eating, especially one that is intended to be eaten uncooked.
Eating apple
Eater
(cellular automata) A configuration of cells that appears to consume another configuration by gradually causing it to disappear.
Eater
One who, or that which, eats.
Eater
Someone who consumes food for nourishment
Eater
Any green goods that are good to eat;
These apples are good eaters
