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clay-eater. One who eats clay for its nutritional content, es- pecially a poor white or black. “He was a little, dried up with- ered atomy—a jaundiced sand-lapper or clay-eater from the Wassamasaw county,” William Gilmore Simms wrote in The Scout (1854). The term has often been used disparagingly, along with terms like poor white, hillbilly, and redneck. Clay-eating, also called dirt-eating, is still practiced in parts of the South, es- pecially in the South Carolina and Georgia low country. |