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chickenarian

chickenarian adjective: eating chicken and/or eggs, especially in conjunction with an otherwise vegetarian diet.

Adjective

chickenarian (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Eating chicken and/or eggs, especially in conjunction with an otherwise vegetarian diet.
    • 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.2000 August 4, JAID [username], “Re: Lighten up”, in alt.food.vegan (Usenet)
    • Most of the Turks are vegetarian and/or chickenarian (Chicken meat is preferred to red meat because of the price tags).2005 March 26, Alistair Sim (quoting Baris Sanli), “Semranim for Dummies”, in soc.culture.turkish (Usenet)

Noun

chickenarian (plural chickenarians)

  1. (informal) A person who has such a diet.

Forms of chickenarian

pluralchickenarians

Origin of chickenarian

From chicken + -arian.

Questions about chickenarian

What does chickenarian mean?
Chickenarian means eating chicken and/or eggs, especially in conjunction with an otherwise vegetarian diet.
What part of speech is chickenarian?
Chickenarian can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near chickenarian in the dictionary

  1. chicken-wing
  2. chicken-winged
  3. chicken-winging
  4. chicken-wings
  5. chickenability
  6. chickenarian
  7. chickenarians
  8. chickenball
  9. chickenberry
  10. chickenboner
  11. chickenboners

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