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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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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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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)
Nuketritionist
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: newk trish yun ist
Sentence: her inner nuketritionist exploded every menu she dreamed up
Etymology: nutritionist, nuke
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
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)
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".
Calorobsessed
Created by: Osomatic
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
Obesessity
Created by: Tobester
Pronunciation: obee-sessity
Sentence: Lauren's obesessity controlled her life, up to a point where she developed a phobia for brownies
Etymology: obsessed with obesity
Illogicalorie
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: ill-odj-ick-al-or-ee
Sentence: she knew she was being illogicalorie, but how could she be sure the 'carb-free' lunch was really 'carb-free'..it's not like she had some magic carbohydrate detector...oh god how she longed for a magic carbohydrate detector.....safer just to skip lunch
Etymology: illogical, calorie
