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Jul 7, 2022
This week’s themeBlend words This week’s words staycation orature pennant flexitarian bromance
“I’m vegetarian with the exception that I still eat children.”
Cartoon: Dan Piraro
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with Anu Gargflexitarian
PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
noun: One who follows a primarily vegetarian diet but occasionally consumes animal products. adjective: Primarily but not completely vegetarian. ETYMOLOGY:
A blend of flexible + vegetarian. Earliest documented use: 1998.
USAGE:
“38% of American consumers said that they guzzle plant-based milk, but
only 12% did so exclusively. The others were flexitarian, drinking
both moo juice and the nutty or beany variety.” Fake Moos; The Economist (London, UK); Oct 12, 2019. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Men rarely (if ever) managed to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most
gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. -Robert A. Heinlein,
science-fiction author (7 Jul 1907-1988)
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