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lotuseater

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lo⋅tus-eat⋅er

[loh-tuhs-ee-ter]
–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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