cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater

English

Etymology

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."

Pronunciation

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Noun

cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater (plural cheater, cheater, pumpkin eaters)

(childish) Someone who cheats.
- 2011, Lara Bergen, Sophie the Snoop:
  Archie was a cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater. More proof that he was a thief!
- 2022 November 27, u/indiegamer122, “So I got kicked because I called out some cheater cheater pumpkin eaters”, in Reddit‎^[1], r/AmongUs:
  (title)