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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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Tunneldiet
Created by: Manhattan
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: Tunnelvision and diet.
Ultimatumeal
Created by: IanArcher
Pronunciation: ul-ti-MAY-tuhm-eel
Sentence: Once i started South Beach, I found myself vacillating between cheating and ultimatumealing.
Etymology: from "ultimatum" and "meal"
Anoxtremia
Created by: weyrlady
Pronunciation: anox-trem-i-a
Sentence: In the throes of anoxtremia, she refused even the butterless popcorn.
Etymology: A combination of "anorexia" and the phrase "in extremia".
Fatanic
Created by: Carla
Pronunciation: fat-an-ic
Sentence: Myrtle's friends were concerned by her fatanicism. She spent longer reading the dietary information printed on food packaging than she did consuming the contents. Myrtle resisted their suggestions that her behaviour was fatanical - she preferred to describe it as a complumpsion.
Etymology: fat + fanatic (a person marked or motivated by an extreme, unreasoning enthusiasm) / Wordplay on Satanic
Obseleat
Created by: verndo
Pronunciation: Ahb so lee t
Sentence: Wendy is so obsoleat with this new diet! If she isn't careful, she's gonna kill herself!
Etymology: Obsess + Eat = Obsolete (Death)
Omnidevhour
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: om nee dev owr
Sentence: Jasmine was such an omnidevhour to her latest food fad regime that she timed herself to eat precisely every 45 minutes for 50 calories worth of food. She gave up her real life as she knew it...it was do or diet!
Etymology: Omnivore (someone who eats all and everything) & Devour (eat)& Devotee (believer) & Hour (every hour)
Dietaholic
Created by: ubgrud
Pronunciation: dye-et-a-hol-ic
Sentence: You know that new "only white food" diet she's on? Last week she spraypainted chocolate cake white. I wonder if she is a dietaholic.
Etymology: Diet + aholic
Calorobsessed
Created by: GreatRandew
Pronunciation: Cal-or-ob-SESS-ed
Sentence: She's so calorbsessed that she won't even be in the same room with a piece of cake.
Etymology: calorie + obsessed
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
