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pescatarian

Person who is vegetarian BUT ALSO EATS FISH.
I am a pescatarian because I DO NOT EAT MEAT BUT I DO EAT FISH.
by Cecilia Rubin January 13, 2008
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Anti pescatarian

Someone who doesn’t eat seacreatures or any living thing from the ocean, lakes, or rivers. Anti pescatarianism is usually caused from trauma from a situation including fish such as a pet fish dieing or seeing live sea creatures being abused.
by Fishlover_kpopfan December 31, 2018
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Swedish Pescatarian

The Swedish Pescatarian overdosed on Red Dye #40.
by MaxPowerDefines September 21, 2019
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Pollo-Pescetarian

Pollo-pescetarian (AKA pesco-pollotarian, pollo-pesco-vegetarian, demi-vegetarian) is an obscure way to refer to redmeat (all mammal meat) abstinence.

“Pollo” is Italian for “chicken” (“pollame” is poultry so “polla” would be precise). “Pescetarian” is borrowed from the term describing incorporating seafood into an otherwise vegetarian diet (modern term but centuries-old practice).

Due to seafood being a separate food group than meat in culinary & health contexts pescetarians were often conflated with vegetarians before their own term existed. Whether seafood is usually counted as a meat in general-context varies w/ region, age, culture & religion.

Labeling oneself a pollo-pescetarian may be met with scrutiny & negativity. This can be because:
•The word is unknown and long-winded
•It’s less simple than saying “No red meat”
•Respecting red meat abstinence only as a “transitional step” not as its own end goal
•Accepting a new label often entails a degree of perceived difficulty &/or novelty (also why people who identify as flexitarian get mocked). Limiting red meat is common, chicken is the #1 meat in America & eaten daily and is always available
Vegetarians may resent the label if they interpret it as an attempt to be perceived as similar to them. The public may resent it if they judge it as an attempt to distance oneself from other meat-eaters to feel special
Frank: “I won’t eat pork or beef but I do eat chicken, turkey, fish and shrimps very often — some people call it being a pollo-pescetarian”

Alexis: “Who exactly? Who has ever called it that?”

Frank: “I saw it online okay? Leave me alone. I can call myself what i want”.
by IbreathAir October 28, 2022
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Peskitarian

peskitarian vegetarian
by TinyTara January 8, 2012
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Pescitarian

Vegetarians who eat fish, not because they believe they have no feelings and have a short memory, but for health reasons, as they have nutrients that can't be found in just vegetables.
Some people also think it's spelled pesKitarian, but it's not.
Anyone who thinks pescitarians eat fish because they don't have feelings are ignorant and shouldn't be on the internet.
by Not a pescitarian April 25, 2010
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Pescatarian

A person who does not eat meat but eats fish instead!
Pescatarian Paula was Libby's mam who made fish and chips for tea and Libby asked where's the chicken but Libby's mam was pescatarian so she told her why there was no chicken, because pescatarian only eat FISH!
by Beth nee June 10, 2017
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