人ひと食くい

noun

cannibalism; biting a person

Refers to the act of eating human flesh or biting someone. Often used in compound nouns like 人食い人種 (cannibal tribe) or 人食いザメ (man-eating shark).

• その島しまには昔むかし、人ひと食くいの習しゅう慣かんがあったと言いわれている。

  It is said that the island once had a custom of cannibalism.

• 人ひと食くいバクテリアによる感かん染せん症しょうが報ほう告こくされた。

  An infection caused by flesh-eating bacteria was reported.

noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

man-eating; cannibalistic

Used attributively to describe animals, monsters, or things that eat or attack humans. Common in expressions like 人食い虎 (man-eating tiger) or 人食い鮫 (man-eating shark).

• 人ひと食くい虎とらが村むらを襲おそった。

  A man-eating tiger attacked the village.

• その映えい画がには人ひと食くい植しょく物ぶつが登とう場じょうする。

  A man-eating plant appears in that movie.