Citations:chickenarian

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English citations of chickenarian

Adjective: "(informal) eating chicken and/or eggs, especially in conjunction with an otherwise vegetarian diet"

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  • 2000 August 4, JAID [username], “Re: Lighten up”, in alt.food.vegan[1] (Usenet):
    For me, I could not give a stuff who is vegetarian, chickenarian or what. It is up to them, just hope they make a good judgement.
  • 2005 March 26, Alistair Sim (quoting Baris Sanli), “Semranim for Dummies”, in soc.culture.turkish[2] (Usenet):
    Most of the Turks are vegetarian and/or chickenarian (Chicken meat is preferred to red meat because of the price tags).
  • 2008, J. Smith, "Hot chicks", Gulf News, 16 January 2008:
    Plus, there are salads for those who don't eat meat. As Nando's says: "Vegetarians are just as welcome as our Chickenarian customers.

Noun: "(informal) a person who eats chicken and/or eggs, especially one who otherwise adheres to a vegetarian diet"

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  • 2011, Sharad Keskar, The Lotus and the Rose, AuthorHouse (2011), →ISBN, page 289:
    'I still do. Shanti's family describe themselves as "chickenarians".'
    Bill chuckled. 'How very Punjabi. Eggs, chicken, but no other meats.'
  • 2014, Jenny Hinton, While the Children Were Sleeping, Astra Books (2014), →ISBN, page 337:
    Karin and I collected him from Inverness, and Alison Collins had cooked a roast chicken for him for our lunch (he was a chickenarian), and had made a chocolate cake for afternoon tea with Granny.