# Portmanteau you invented

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**Created:** [January 13, 2012, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450 "2012-01-13T23:17:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/31 "2012-01-15T04:45:12Z")

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I’m not the one who came up with it, but [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=638530) thread has a term for the opposite of a vegetarian; a meatatarian.

> [@A vegetarian unknowingly eats meat...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-vegetarian-unknowingly-eats-meat/609556/13):
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> > [@A vegetarian unknowingly eats meat...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-vegetarian-unknowingly-eats-meat/609556/12):
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> > meatatarian
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> Ha! I thought I’d made that word up.

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