A term used to describe the eating patterns of someone who is not an ovo or lacto vegetarian, but does restrict the intake of certain meats. They do not consume red meat or poultry, but will consume fish or seafood. The term is used to discribe a diet, not nessasarily a moral decision.
Sally thought eating red meat was unhealthy, so the only meat she eats is fish; therefore Sally is a Pesco-vegetarian.
A term used to describe the eating patterns of an individual who is not an ovo or lacto vegetarian, but does restrict the intake of certain meats. They do not consume red meat or poultry, but will consume fish or seafood. The term is used to describe a diet, not necessarily a moral decision.
Sally thought eating red meat was unhealthy, so the only meat she will eat is fish; therefore Sally is a Pesco-vegetarian.
Someone who, for any of several possible reasons, does not eat warm-blooded animals or land animals. For instance, such a person maydislike 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.
A sunburn or suntan focused on the left arm. It is caused by the left side of the body being the only half that gets exposed to sunlight while driving. Presumably, it would be located on the right side of the body in countries where they drive on the left side of the road.
British slang for a scientist or technical expert, esp . when the speaker is not certain of the expert’s specific field of study. Not necessarily derogatory, but typically used by persons without a technical background. In the US, the equivalent would be “egghead”, “squint”, or “geek.”
Origin of the word is unknown. Started sometime in World War 2. Given the typical evolution of British slang, could easily have started because what these experts did was confusing or “baffling” to the common person.
When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing peecalculus.