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DEFINITION: v. tr. To eat in a peculiar or ritualistic manner in an effort to lose weight while consuming more. n. An idiosyncratic method of eating, usually adopted for "health reasons".
Verboticisms
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Bingenibbler
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: bin-ge-nib-eler
Sentence: When the doctor told Monica that she was obese and advised her to lose weight, she went home and devised, what she thought, was a foolproof plan. She decided to use the bingenibbler method which involved taking very small bites of food while still consuming exactly the same amount as before.
Etymology: Binge(excessive eating) + Nibble(to take small bites, gently bite at) = Bingenibbler
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COMMENTS:
wouldn't that be nice if it worked? - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-13: 10:34:00
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Idiosyncaloric
Created by: serendipity9000
Pronunciation: id-eo-sin-ca-lore-ic
Sentence: Her eating regimen was very idiosyncaloric - it insisted she only consume dairy and candy.
Etymology: IDIOSYN (from idiosyncratic - peculiar to the individual) + CALORIC
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COMMENTS:
sounds good to me - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-20: 12:45:00
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Nomble
Created by: Rhyme79
Pronunciation: nomm-ball
Sentence: I love to eat grapes coated in cream cheese and chocolate, but so I don't absorb the fat, I have to nomble it.
Etymology: nom (slang for 'eat'; as in 'om nom nom'.) + nibble + gobble = nomble
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COMMENTS:
Fun word! - hyperborean, 2012-10-15: 10:37:00
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Manicmange
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: man-ik-monj
Sentence: Jenny Craig insists that manicmange is healthy for their overweight clients.
Etymology: manic (frenzy) + mange (to eat en francais)
Insuffergest
Created by: weyrlady
Pronunciation: in-suffer-gest
Sentence: I hate having to insuffergest.
Etymology: insufficient + insufferable + suffer +ingest
Vegebation
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: veg/uh/bey/shun
Sentence: Vegebation is the peculiar ritual Tiffany practises. She only drinks her food. She juicers all her vegetables and tofu together and drinks her meals to prevent wear and tear on her teeth and reduce facial aging lines from chewing. Vegebation is also part of the 'X-Man' cultasy which proclaims that this activity will reduce the side effects of youthanesia.
Etymology: vegetarian + libation; vegebation -n. An idiosyncratic method of eating, usually adopted for "health reasons".
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COMMENTS:
veganomics - Nosila, 2010-01-14: 15:49:00
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Gourmandgo
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: gore-mand-go
Sentence: Some people thought Lenny was totally aliMENTAL, but he was a dedicated practitioner of gourmandgo. This diet regime required him to eat copious amounts of mangoes all the while fidgetlicking to burn up calories.
Etymology: go man go (encouraging cry for those exercising) + gourmandise (make a pig of oneself) + mango (yum, plus full of antioxidants)
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COMMENTS:
Don't blame me... I voted for Gourmand. - Clayton, 2007-06-20: 05:59:00
Appearantly, he had no grape desire to change his currant eating habits. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-20: 09:46:00
No, he was persimmonently sticking to the regime, although the side effects of all that fibre were difficult to pear. He kept appleying himself to the diet the same way he plummed the depths in his study of Mandarin and was still olive long after his grandchildren started dating. They apricioted his efforts and did not ban a nana from joining him, although he was figgin ginormous after a couple of years. - petaj, 2007-06-20: 22:53:00
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Pizzaslap
Created by: ajcor
Pronunciation: as it sounds
Sentence: What is bound to happen if one tries to eat another's person's PIZZA while indulging single mindly in a frolic of one's own!
Etymology: Pizza as in food of choice and Slap as in what happens as a direct result to the Pizza Top Licker. Particularly when the Crumb to yummy Pizza Top ratio has been studied empirically and found lacking!
Tonguetried
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: tung tryde
Sentence: When Tilly was on one of her famous diets, she would only lick her food, not bite or chew it. She told her friends it helped her lose weight when she tonguetried her meals in this manner.
Etymology: Tongue (a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity) & Tried (attempted,tested) & WordPlay on Tongue-tied (unable to speak from shyness embarassment or surprise)
Microgorging
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: my-crow-gore-jing
Sentence: Her sad demise was attributed to MICROGORGING and other questionable habits.
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
Strongbad RULES ! - metrohumanx, 2007-06-20: 08:43:00
Well, no wonder. If she could just wait til the bell rang and remove her meal instead of just shoving the whole oven down her throat, she would have lived to a macro age. - petaj, 2007-06-20: 23:22:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was inspired by Robert J. Sawyer's Rollback. It may be science fiction, but when Rob gets rolling you can't help but laugh at the details of our daily lives -- like eating pizza. Rollback's pizza moment starts off with, "She was used to the way her husband ate pizza, but couldn't actually say she liked it", and then jumps right into the gory details. Thanks Rob! ~ James
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