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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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Fleshplot
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: flesh/plot
Sentence: Behind every cobbler, cupcake, and cream puff lay a ferocious fleshplot waiting to add a few more inches to her waistline.
Etymology: flesh + plot
Calorage
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation:
Sentence: woman destroys donut shop in fit of calorage
Etymology:
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.
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
Dietizingment
Created by: spickaspanner
Pronunciation: die-et-i-zing-munt
Sentence:
Etymology:
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.
Foodessive
Created by: lebeast
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Cupcake : "this is one foodessive broad".
Etymology: food+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)
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.
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