Compounds of 食う

• 食う
  (v5u,vt) (1) (male) (vulg) to eat
  (2) to live
  to make a living
  to survive
  (3) to bite
  to sting (as insects do)
  (4) to tease
  to torment
  to taunt
  to make light of
  to make fun of
  (5) to encroach on
  to eat into
  to consume
  (6) to defeat a superior
  to threaten a position
  (7) to consume time and-or resources
  (8) (col) to receive something (usu. an unfavourable event)
  (9) (male) (vulg) to have sexual relations with a woman, esp. for the first time
  (P)
• 巣食う
  (ateji) (v5u,vi) (1) to build (a nest)
  to nest
  (2) to haunt (a place)
  to hang out (somewhere)
• 一杯食う
  (exp) to be deceived
• 霞を食う
  (exp) to live on air
• 割を食う
  (exp) to be put at a disadvantage
  to get the short end of the stick
• 飯を食う
  (exp) to devour a meal
  to have a meal
• 泡を食う
  (exp) to be flurried
  to be confused
  to lose one's head
• 貪り食う
  (v5u) to devour greedily
• 横綱を食う
  (exp) to beat a grand champion
• 蚊の食う程
  (n) not be worried about anything
• 煽りを食う
  (exp) to suffer a blast or indirect blow
  to be subject to the surplus force of an impetus
• 道草を食う
  (exp,v5u) to loiter (on the way)
  to waste time
• お預けを食う
  (exp) to have to wait (for the realization of something hoped for)
  to be forced to postpone
• 剣付くを食う
  (exp) to be the victim of a burst of anger
• 御預けを食う
  (exp) to have to wait (for the realization of something hoped for)
  to be forced to postpone
• 粋が身を食う
  (exp) (id) Playing the dandy ruins a man
• 冷や飯を食う
  (exp) (1) to depend on somebody for food and lodging
  (2) to be treated coldly
  to be kept in a low position
• 食うや食わずの
  (exp) (living) from hand to mouth
  living on the fringe of subsistance
• 総すかんを食う
  (exp) to be hated by everyone
• 背負投げを食う
  (exp,v5u) to be betrayed unexpectedly
  to be stabbed in the back
  to be double-crossed
• 同じ釜の飯を食う
  (exp) to work at the same place
• 背負い投げを食う
  (exp,v5u) to be betrayed unexpectedly
  to be stabbed in the back
  to be double-crossed
• 置いてきぼりを食う
  (exp) to be left behind
• 蓼食う虫も好き好き
  (exp) there's no accounting for taste
• 働かざる者食うべからず
  (exp) if man will not work, he shall not eat
• 働かざるもの食うべからず
  (exp) if man will not work, he shall not eat