Indian English portmanteau for a person who follows a vegetarian diet but also eats eggs. In India, where vegetarianism is often religiously motivated and strictly observed, the eggetarian category serves as a meaningful middle ground between full vegetarianism and non-vegetarian diets. Widely used on restaurant menus and in everyday conversation in India.
She called herself eggetarian — no meat or fish, but eggs were fine.
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(chiefly, India) lacto-ovo-vegetarian.
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