Clay Eater

Emerging from the shanty with provoking deliberation -- the impatience of my host had infected me -- the clay-eater slowly proceeded to mount the horse of the negro, while his dirt-bedraggled wife, and clay-encrusted children, followed close at his heels, the younger ones huddling around for the tokens of paternal affection usual at parting. ❋ James R. Gilmore (N/A)

The Almighty, therefore, has laid upon _you_ a triple burden; you not only have to provide for yourself and your children, but for two races beneath you, the black and the clay-eater. ❋ James R. Gilmore (N/A)

Emerging from the shanty with provoking deliberation -- the impatience of my host had infected me -- the clay-eater slowly proceeded to mount the horse of the negro, his dirt-bedraggled wife, and clay-incrusted children, following close at his heels, and the younger ones huddling around for the tokens of paternal affection usual at parting. ❋ Various (N/A)

In that State I found several persons -- whites, and not of the "clay-eater" class, either -- who never had been inside a school-house, and who didn't mean to 'low their children to go inside one. ❋ Various (N/A)

Also, throughout the South, "clay-eater," has ever been a fighting word. ❋ Albert Payson Terhune (1907)

"clay-eater," is a terrible one of reproach, and is applied unsparingly by the aristocrats. ❋ William Pittenger (1872)

He thought he was about to meet a clay eater, but that [turned out] [not to be] [the case]. ❋ The Return Of Light Joker (2011)

“Hey is that [clays dick eater]?” “[Yes go] call them [Irish],” ❋ Clay 😎 (2022)