VEGETARIAN
ADJECTIVES
– CRUNCHY vegetarian …1990s US college sl.
– UNCARNIVOROUS vegetarian …1822
– VEGETABLE living on vegetables, vegetarian …1812
– VEGETANT vegetarian …1858 nonce use
– VEGETIZING vegetarian …1857
– VEGGIE vegetarian …1975 sl.. sometimes derogatory
– VEGO vegetarian …1988 Aust. colloq.
NOUNS, PERSON
– ACREOPHAGIST one who habitually abstains from eating meat; a vegetarian …19C
– BANIAN a Hindu who abstains from animal food …Bk1867
– CRUNCHY a vegetarian …1980s US college sl.
– CRUNCHY GRANOLA a vegetarian …1980s US college sl.
– LACTO-OVO-VEGETARIAN a person who subsists on a diet of dairy products, eggs, and vegetables
– LACTO-VEGETARIAN a person who subsists on vegetables and milk products (and formerly, eggs) only …E20
– NEBUCHADNEZZAR a vegetarian …1862 sl.
– VEGAN a person who on principle abstains from all food of animal origin …1944
– VEGANIST a vegetarian who eats no animals or animal products …1972 chiefly Brit.
– VEGE a vegetarian …1970s sl.
– VEGETARIAN one who lives wholly or principally upon vegetable foods; a person who on principle abstains from any form of animal food, or at least such as is obtained by the direct destruction of life …1842
– VEGETIST a vegetarian …Bk2014
– VEGGIE; VEGGY; VEGIE; VEGY a vegetarian …1975 UK
– VEGO a vegetarian …1996 Aust. colloq.