meatarian
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]meatarian (plural meatarians)
- (rare) One who eats meat.
- 1977, Psychonomic Society, Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, Volume 10:
- At the present, it appears that there is support for the notion that vegetarians respond (in a variety of ways) different from meatarians.
- 1984, M Thomas Starkes, God's commissioned people:
- Finally she divided the Hindu, Muslim, and Christian students into three categories: vegetarians, meatarians, and eggarians.
- 2004, Kancha Ilaiah, Buffalo nationalism: a critique of spiritual fascism:
- If India is defined as a nation of productive skills — of tilling land, of cutting crops — its holistic (meatarian and vegetarian) food culture, its symbols of civilization such as the pot, wheel, shoe, sculpture and so on — it belongs to the Adivasis, Dalits and OBCs.
- (rare) A person who only eats meat.
Usage notes
[edit]Primarily used to contrast with vegetarian, referring to people who eat meat (in addition to vegetables, not to their exclusion).