eat
/it/ noun C2- Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.
Plural eats
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“Poor little thing!” said Alice, in a coaxing tone, and she tried hard to whistle to it; but she was terribly frightened all the time at the thought that it might be hungry, in which case it would be very likely to eat her up in spite of all her coaxing.
“If I eat one of these cakes,” she thought, “it’s sure to make _some_ change in my size; and as it can’t possibly make me larger, it must make me smaller, I suppose.”
Both things to eat and things to see,
To eat with apple-tart.
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