cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (2024)

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Etymology[edit]

Based on a traditional children's rhyme: "Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater, / Had a wife and couldn't keep her; / He put her in a pumpkin shell, / And there he kept her very well."

Noun[edit]

cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater (plural not attested)

  1. (childish) Someone who cheats.
    • 2011, Lara Bergen, Sophie the Snoop:

      Archie was a cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater. More proof that he was a thief!

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