One who pretends to be vegetarian, but is in fact not; A fake vegetarian; One who claims to adhere to the vegetarian ethos when in certain company, but consumes animal products and meat otherwise.
Jose: I saw Lauren at Fuji Mountain last night-- but she was eating chicken teriyaki. Isn't she vegetarian?
Christie: That's what she tells everyone, but she's a total faketarian.
1. Someone who claims to be vegan but doesn’t know what a dairy product is, or how vegans get protein.
2. Someone who claims to be vegetarian but still eats “chicken” or “fish.”
“That girl isn’t a vegetarian bro, she’s a Fakietarian. She says “It’s just a little fishsometimes,” but I just saw her down two cheese burgers.”
Someone who watches too many PETA/animal cruelty videos online and suddenly proclaims they are a vegetarian. Common traits include "occasionally" eating meat, or only eating chicken. Fauxgetarians usually disregard their commitment to saving the animals after a month or two.
Heather's not a vegetarian, man. She's a fauxgetarian, she just watched too many PETA videos last week.
She told me she was a vegetarian, but I saw her eating a whole steak yesterday. Now I know she's just a fauxgetarian.