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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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Exaltarvate
Created by: kankamuso
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Every January Jane makes the resolution of dieting. She usually just exaltarvate till February 1st.
Etymology: Exalt + Starvation
Hyperyacking
Created by: Sed8ed
Pronunciation: hi-per-yah-king
Sentence: Mary Kate and Ashley often find themselves hyperyacking before each new audition to lose those pesky few pounds.
Etymology:
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
Tunneldiet
Created by: Manhattan
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: Tunnelvision and diet.
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.
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
Blobsessed
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: Blob-sessed
Sentence: As Jill sat staring at the delicious cake, she became blobsessed with not letting reach her mouth.
Etymology: blob, a huge mass of edipose. obsessed, focusing all your energy on one thing.
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
Dietllucinate
Created by: ahwinters
Pronunciation: die-it-loose-in-ate
Sentence: When she would dietllucinate she'd feel that sweets were out to kill her.
Etymology: Diet + Hallucinate
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.
