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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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Diaticism
Created by: tgulden
Pronunciation: Dy/at/i/siz/um
Sentence: Her diatisicm was so great that she put all the refined sugar in the house into the fire pit.
Etymology: diet + fanaticism
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
Asweetic
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: a-swee-tic
Sentence: Marilyn was an asweetic, especially during Lent. She practiced self-denial to a fault when it came to desserts, however, she did have a weakness for pork rinds.
Etymology: ascetic: to practice self-denial and austerity, especially for spiritual self-improvement + sweet: another word for dessert
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COMMENTS:
easy to say but difficult to do! - mweinmann, 2009-08-17: 15:47:00
Good word. Got my vote. - hyperborean, 2013-09-25: 22:46:00
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Consumania
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: con-syoo-main-eeya
Sentence: "Rachel gobbled it all up. She inhaled it. It was total consumania."
Etymology: consume + mania
Rumenate
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: RUE-men-ayt
Sentence: Though his stomach grumbled about it, Jim rumenated over even the smallest crumb.
Etymology: rumen (the "fermentation vat par excellence" of the digestive tract) + ruminate (to fixate on, think about)
Paravore
Created by: chofu67
Pronunciation: pare a vore
Sentence: Her obsession with eating only from an ever diminishing selection of acceptable foods had turned Edie into a virtual paravore.
Etymology: paranoid + vore (as in omnivore, carnivore, etc.)
Gobbleclobber
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: gob-uhl-klob-er
Sentence: Eve and her friends at work see desserts as an enemy to be vanquished. If someone were to dare to bring something evil into the office they will gobbleclobber it until it is no more.
Etymology: gobble (to swallow or eat hastily or hungrily in large pieces; gulp) + clobber (to defeat decisively; drub; trounce)
Slimbalance
Created by: chris
Pronunciation: slim-bal-ans
Sentence: Jade's life was so slimbalanced that she wouldn't even lick a stamp for fear of the calories it might contain.
Etymology: slim + imbalance
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COMMENTS:
If she's slimbalanced, doesn't theat make her a slimbacil? lol. - TrJoshB, 2007-01-24: 16:53:00
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Calorfatic
Created by: Maureen
Pronunciation: cal-or-fat-ic
Sentence: She found the calorfatic diet rather restricting as even a non-fat icypole made her cringe.
Etymology: Calorie - unit of heat. Fat - oily substance found in human bodies. ic-suffix - belonging to.
