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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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Gourmation
Created by: Fenners
Pronunciation: gour - may - shun
Sentence: I have a touch of gourmation
Etymology: gourmet/gourmand + ation
Cupcakenbia
Created by: wisepenguin
Pronunciation: cup-cake-ken-bia
Sentence: One who may be avoiding desserts and food that affects his/her usual diet is most likely to be suffering from cupcakenbia.
Etymology: desserts such as ''cupcakes'' are no exception to one's ''phobia''
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
Consumeater
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kon soom eet er
Sentence: Patty Cake, Patty Cake, baker's daughter. You learned to eat desserts, just like you oughter. When you started reading labels and measuring calories, you took all the glee out of enjoying good food naturally. Now you're on a diet, you've become a consumeater, we liked you way better when you were a diet cheater!
Etymology: Consume (to eat immoderately; serve oneself to, or consume regularly; engage fully) & Eater (someone who consumes food for nourishment)
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COMMENTS:
was she the consummate consumeater who learned to control the consumption of calories? good word - mweinmann, 2009-08-17: 15:50:00
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Foodenfeeblement
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: FOOD-en-FEE-bull-ment
Sentence: Foodenfeeblement had descended on the fat fighters. They were so obsessed with their dieting, they felt consumed but it.
Etymology: food + enfeeble
Dietoholic
Created by: allwise
Pronunciation: dy-et-o-hol-ik
Sentence: Reba was a dietoholic, she couldn't even eat a rice-cake without a bad conscience!
Etymology: diet: to loose weight by limiting consumption -holic: addicted to
Tunneldiet
Created by: Manhattan
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: Tunnelvision and diet.
Debilicake
Created by: loosepiece
Pronunciation: deb - ILL - i - cake
Sentence: Samanthas quest to achieve the perfect weight was proving to be debilicaking. Even the smallest fairy cake took on monstrous proportions by the end of diet day 2.
Etymology: debilitate - to weaken, or encumber cake - the foodsutff designed to make you weaken. But they are evil, EVIL i tell you!
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)
Nuketritionist
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: newk trish yun ist
Sentence: her inner nuketritionist exploded every menu she dreamed up
Etymology: nutritionist, nuke
