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pescovegetarian

Someone who, for any of several possible reasons, does not eat warm-blooded animals or land animals. For instance, such a person may dislike the enslavement and cruelty inflicted on animals in factory farms; or one may be repulsed by the idea of eating another mammal. In other cases, one may simply practice pescovegetarianism for health reasons rather than ethical ones. Due to the apparently contradictory nature of the term, it is extremely liable to provoke glib knee-jerk reactions in others.

person #1: You eat fish? What a hypocrite you are, fish aren't vegetables. They suffer too.

person #2: You ass, you didn't even ask me why I'm a pescovegetarian.

person #3: No kidding. What a contemptible non sequitur person # 1 just made. The day someone coins a less clumsy word to denote a person whose meat diet is limited to cold-blooded sea animals, is the day I'll drop the term pescovegetarianism in exchange for that other, more descriptive, yet-to-be-coined term.
pescovegetarian by mythmasher July 19, 2007
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pescovegetarian

Someone who is a vegetarian but allows fish in their diet, like me.
I am a pescovegetarian.
pescovegetarian by brendan June 29, 2004

pescovegetarian

Someone who, for any of several possible reasons, does not eat warm-blooded animals or land animals. For instance, such a person may dislike the enslavement and cruelty inflicted on animals in factory farms; or one may be repulsed by the idea of eating another mammal. In other cases, one may simply practice pescovegetarianism for health reasons rather than ethical ones. Due to the apparently contradictory nature of the term, it is extremely liable to provoke glib knee-jerk reactions in others.

person #1: You eat fish? What a hypocrite you are, fish aren't vegetables. They suffer too.

person #2: You ass, you didn't even ask me why I'm a pescovegetarian.

person #3: No kidding. What a contemptible non sequitur person #1 just made. The day someone coins a less clumsy word to denote a person whose meat diet is limited to cold-blooded sea animals, is the day I'll drop the term pescovegetarianism in exchange for that other, more descriptive, yet-to-be-coined term.
pescovegetarian by belwether August 1, 2007
A piscivore is a theropod who is a fish eater and also eats meat. Some examples of a piscivore is a Spinosaurus, Baryonyx and Suchomiomus.
Example: A spinosaurus eats fish so it is known as a piscivore.
piscivore by Bredley12 June 3, 2020

pescovegetarian

A pesco vegetarian does not exist, but here is the common misconception:

Someone who does not eat beef, pork, chicken, or any other type of meat execpt fish.

In reality, this person is not a vegetarian. Fish are not vegtables. Overfishing seriously depleates the world's oceans and leads to many unnessary deaths of other marine creatures, such as dolphins.

Vegetarians eat no meat, but sometimes eat eggs or dairy products.
1) Linda called herself a pescovegetarian, but we all knew better.
pescovegetarian by callire June 20, 2006
It is said of the situation where a person has the bad luck to make contact with his testicles against an undefined surface or object, intentioned or not.
Given the nature of the word, it is more appropriate to design cases where the interaction is made with a moving object, for example, a ball.
Although it is extremely painful for the victim, it tends to be considerably funny to people who witness it.
Today in the baseball game the pitcher took a nutshot; the baseball hit him in the nuts.

Man, I just watched the funniest nutshot video ever.
Nutshot by Uberflaven March 1, 2009
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