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lotus eater

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lo⋅tus-eat⋅er

  [loh-tuhs-ee-ter]
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–noun
1. Classical Mythology. a member of a people whom Odysseus found existing in a state of languorous forgetfulness induced by their eating of the fruit of the legendary lotus; one of the lotophagi.
2. a person who leads a life of dreamy, indolent ease, indifferent to the busy world; daydreamer.
Origin:
1825–35; sing. of lotus-eaters, trans. of Gk Lōtophágoi, n. use of masc. pl. of lōtophágos lotus-eating. See lotus, -phagous
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lo·tus-eat·er   (lō'təs-ē'tər)
n.  

  1. Lotus-eater or Lotus Eater Greek Mythology One of a people described in the Odyssey who lived in a drugged, indolent state from feeding on the lotus.

  2. A lazy person devoted to pleasure and luxury.

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