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'This cupcake is evil! I must destroy it, before it destroys me.'

DEFINITION: v. To follow a diet with such rigor and fervor that it consumes all your energy, and throws everything, even your desserts, out of proportion. n. A person who thinks too much about what they eat.

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Dietverticulitis

Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: how ever you like, its a long word.

Sentence: amy's dietverticulitis was so bad she hid all the sugar packets in the office.

Etymology: from diet, diverticulitis (a disease of some form) and diverting someones attention towards destroying foods.

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Trinime

Created by: adbern

Pronunciation: Tri-nime

Sentence: ooohhwww I want, but it's trinime

Etymology: tricky nice meal

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Ghandivitis

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: gahn/dy/vih/tis

Sentence: Beacause she was such a devout follower of Mahatma Ghandi her persistent dieting for world peace resulted in her developing acute ghandivitis

Etymology: Mahatma Ghandi + gingivitis

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Thinbitious

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: thin - bish - us

Sentence: Being thinbitious, Sally would not eat any desserts, foods with too many carbs or sodium. She did not want to retain water or risk adding any pounds to her already skeletal appearance.

Etymology: thin, ambitious

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COMMENTS:

Good word. - mrskellyscl, 2009-08-17: 08:01:00

anorexcellent! - jrogan, 2009-08-17: 08:58:00

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Southbeachedwhaling

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: south/beached/whale/ing

Sentence: Sue successfully dropped 100 pounds by southbeachedwhaling, imagining each morsel of food had the potential to return her to her former hump-back proportions.

Etymology: South Beach Diet, beached whale

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Hallucineat

Created by: hyperborean

Pronunciation: hu-loos-uh-neet

Sentence: If she concentrated hard enough, Sheila could hallucineat without consuming a calorie or sacrificing flavor.

Etymology: hallucinate + eat

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Diminuendize

Created by: jimroberts

Pronunciation: di-min'yoo-en'diz

Sentence:

Etymology: From "diminuendo", a musical shrinkage most likely to occur toward the butt end of a piece.

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Abstrain

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: abstrān

Sentence: Barbara*s mother is the tour guide for any guilt trip. Barb grew up hearing **Watch what you eat, you don*t want to end up like Aunt Maggie**. The fact that her aunt was adopted and has nothing to do with her genetics doesn*t seem to matter. At every meal she will abstrain from eating anything she enjoys. She has taught herself to cook poorly so that there is little chance of temptation.

Etymology: abstain (restrain oneself from doing or enjoying something) + strain (force a part of one*s body or oneself to make a strenuous or unusually great effort)

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