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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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Exacticate
Created by: PolishedAmethyst
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I feel sorry for her, she cannot sit down and have a normal meal because she exacticates the whole time she's at the table.
Etymology: Exact(ing) and masticate
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COMMENTS:
Great word. Got my vote. - hyperborean, 2013-09-25: 22:54:00
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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
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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Carbobsess
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: CARB-uhb-ses
Sentence: Heather, it's only one one Pringle! Don't be carbobsessive.
Etymology: carbo(hydrate) + obsess
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)
Belliphobic
Created by: jrogan
Pronunciation: bel-lee-foh-bik
Sentence: Richard was so belliphobic that he couldn't even look at a dessert plate without loosing his cookies.
Etymology: belly + phobia = fear of bellies
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COMMENTS:
Bellissimo - Nosila, 2009-08-18: 01:07:00
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Unfatuation
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: unføtʃəweɪʃən
Sentence: When it comes to dieting Harold has an unfatuation. He spends so much time trimming fat from his meat he barely has time to eat.
Etymology: un (not) + fat (a natural oily or greasy substance occurring in animal bodies) + infatuation (be inspired with an intense but short-lived passion or admiration for)
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
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".
