Verboticisms

Created by: karenanne

Pronunciation: od bal EE mee ah

Sentence: Candy can't understand why she can't lose weight. She scrupulously avoids starches after 5:00 pm ("it turns right to fat"). She always carefully counts her daily calories. She eats lots of celery ("it takes more calories to digest it than it has in it, so that's negative calories"). She also eats a lot of spicy foods too ("that revs your metabolism and burns more calories"). Of course, drinks don't really count because they are mostly water; the same goes for soup. And everyone knows that the bites you take while you're cooking, to "taste test" the food, don't count. She does eat whatever is left on her kids' plates, but those calories don't count either because she eats standing up.

Etymology: oddball + bulimia

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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)

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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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Created by: cococo

Pronunciation: heal - teet

Sentence: I'm healteating very often because I want to lose weight.

Etymology: health + eat

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: chomp + peculiarity

Sentence: He's got some chompeculiarities, for instance, he squishes his bread flat before eating it.

Etymology: chomp + peculiarity

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Created by: rephil

Pronunciation: kahn-stih-PUL-zhun

Sentence: Ada's numerous constipulsions meant that the waiter's order read like a manual for diffusing a bomb -- which, in fact, it was.

Etymology: compulsion -- an irrational need to do something; consume -- to use, eat; constipation -- a condition where the digestion is stuck in a particular state. Verb: (irr.) Constipuleat

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COMMENTS:

Too bad you can't enter both the noun and verb forms of the definition! - rephil, 2007-06-20: 10:00:00

I like the sound of both of them! - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-20: 10:12:00

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Created by: wallac44

Pronunciation: fuh-dieting

Sentence: My mother's weight keeps yo-yoing because of all of the fadieting she does.

Etymology: Fad and diet.

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: goŏrmändāt

Sentence: Rudy has tried every diet that has come down the pike. The latest? The gourmandate. You eat as many dates as you possibly can on the theory that you overwhelm the digestive system so that it can’t possibly process the excess. Has he lost any weight? What do you think?

Etymology: gourmand (a person who enjoys eating and often eats too much) + mandate (an official order or commission to do something) + date (a sweet, dark brown, fruit)

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Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: posh/nosh

Sentence: She would only eat food worthy of her position. Her poshnosh habit unforunately only involved rich food

Etymology: posh nosh

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COMMENTS:

Sounds like her tastes were Victorian. Hmm is that the dinner bell Beckhaming? - petaj, 2007-06-20: 23:23:00

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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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