new (non-)coinage ("vagitarian")

[Laurence Horn]

I just read a film review in the Yale Daily News of the recently
released "Imagine Me & You" which concludes

"the film is strikingly unremarkable--save for coining 'vagitarian',
a delectable addition to the pop culture lexicon of Generation O.C."

It's evident from the context that it means what it sounds like it
should mean.  But to my non-surprise, this turns out not to be such a
new coinage after all, given cites back to 2003 (cf.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=vagitarian, if
urbandictionary.com can be trusted, which it can't always), and even
a recorded eponymous song, by the aptly named group Never Heard of
It, with lyrics given at
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Vagitarian-lyrics-Never-Heard-Of-It/3220D91C0E9BC01148256D0A0036658F.


There are 32K raw google hits for this term of art, although many are
obvious duplicates.

Well, it was new to me.

LH

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