What's the opposite of a vegetarian?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6p98VtdQ1w
Denis Leary has a bit about eating meat. It's on his first album "No Cure for Cancer" Track 6 titled 'Meat'. He talks about eating meat as being an instinct. Here's a link to the lyrics http://www.lyrics007.com/Denis%20Leary%20Lyrics/Meat%20Lyrics.html
Here's an article called "Hold the Salad" it's about eating a meat diet. They also use the term 'meatatarian'
http://redeye.chicagotribune.com/red-012409-meat-main,0,3177467.story
Jessica Simpson has also been called a 'meat lover'
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@ablanian
Fair enough... however, I think that this question is a little bit facetious and should be taken lightly. When taken literally, there is not a word in the English language that is the true opposite of Vegetarian. If I'm wrong, please correct me. I'd love to know what it is too!
"Urbandictionary ... is often it is only teen humor. "
I think that this question is a little bit humorous too.
I have now added my own answer, which is one of my better efforts if I do say so myself.
Urbandictionary does not necessarily report usage at all, individuals enter what they want, often it is only teen humor.
I consider this not helpful because your source is the urbandictionary which is totally unreliable and worthless with no sources or editing and worse standards than a tabloid.
Also, meatatarian, even if it becomes a word someday, is a poorly constructed one.
obviously
Words make it into the language because people start using them, printed dictionaries often lag behind . The Urban Dictionary is not necessarily a bad source for common usage and slang terms.
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A number of suggestions have been made in discussions of words. Here is what the etymology of vegetarian is reported to be:
"1839, irregular formation from vegetable (n.) + -arian, as in agrarian, etc. "The general use of the word appears to have been largely due to the formation of the Vegetarian Society in Ramsgate in 1847." by the online etymology dictionary. Apparently the Vegetarian Society tried to claim that the derivation was not from vegetable but the word had been coined that way at least by 1839 according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Note that the root is vegetable, which is the equivalent of animal and not meat or "carn-". Suggested coinings such as carnophile and carnophage are built in different ways and imply different meanings. "Meatarian" is a foolish coining as it does not fit and because "meat" also can mean the solid part of a vegetable.
"Meat eater" or "Meat-eater" is plain English but not a single word and does not convey that the eater prefers or believes in eating only meat. Carnivore is a technical biological term whose equivalent is herbivore and omnivore. Humans are omnivores even if they choose to be vegetarians.
I would suggest coining the word "Animarian" as this would follow the etymology of "Vegetarian" and uses appropriate roots. An Animarian would be someone who believes in eating animals, either for health or spiritual reasons.
There is no current word "Animarian" although it has been used for inhabitants of a fictional place in some comic series.
The actor Sam Neill is an advocate of eating meat and has clashed with PETA.
From time to time people have advocated an all meat diet based on the notion that it was the diet of the Eskimos.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Karsten Anderson, Arctic explorers, lived for over a year on an all meat diet and were persuaded that they felt healthier for it. This caused a medical controversy but the controversy was about lean meat vs fat, as fat (or oil) is necessary in human diet. The explorers were outspoken against vegetarianism and Stefansson wrote articles advocating an all meat diet.
Note: This answer is about the opposite of vegetarian, being advocation of an all animal diet. Having a balanced, omnivore diet is recommended by most health sources but that is not the opposite of vegetarian.
Footnote: A problem with being an Animalian would be that one could not drink beer. The equivalent drinks brewed from milk or blood would be quite different. And, would one count yeast as animal or vegetable, as it is technically neither?
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=vegetarian
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,738980,00.html
http://www.biblelife.org/stefansson1.htm (an old magasine article in Harpers)
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That's what I meant when I mentioned a comic series; but, I don't think comic series rate exclusive use of names they think up. That was the only use of Animarian I found on google and it seems a pretty trivial reference even for fans of powerrangers, whoever they are. Wikipedia says there's only one of them.
Sadly, Animarian is already taken. Although, I guess it could have 2 meanings!
http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Animarian_Warriors
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I suppose there is George Foreman for a "poster-child" of meat lovers. I remember that he was on a number of commercials selling his grills and other **meat cooking devices** which always showed a fat juicy burger cooked to perfection....
Well, I really don't know what to think... I do agree that carnivore would be an unfitting term for a person.
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