# quiche-eater

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A man who is effeminate or who lacks some putative masculine virtue.
2. In computer programming circles, a person far removed from practice and concerned only with academic matters, unwilling to "get their hands dirty".

## Etymology
The idiom derives from the book on stereotypes about masculinity, Real Men Don't Eat Quiche, by Bruce Feirstein, published in 1982. The computer circle version was popularised by a 1983 article Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal, that specifically accuses the creator of the Pascal language, Niklaus Wirth, of being a "quiche eater" due to the nature of Pascal.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/quiche-eater