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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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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
Atkinize
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: atkin - ize
Sentence: Jill would Atkinize over her diet plans to the point of messing herself up.
Etymology: Atikins + ize
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".
Dietiquette
Created by: whimsy
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Her daily dietiquette proceedings consisted of raving at the dessert cake as she ate her salad.
Etymology: diet + etiquette
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
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)
Asweetic
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: a-swee-tic
Sentence: Marilyn was an asweetic, especially during Lent. She practiced self-denial to a fault when it came to desserts, however, she did have a weakness for pork rinds.
Etymology: ascetic: to practice self-denial and austerity, especially for spiritual self-improvement + sweet: another word for dessert
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COMMENTS:
easy to say but difficult to do! - mweinmann, 2009-08-17: 15:47:00
Good word. Got my vote. - hyperborean, 2013-09-25: 22:46:00
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Nuerexic
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: neur/ex/ic
Sentence: She was a text book neurexic, totally obsessed with losing her appetite.
Etymology: neurotic + anorexic
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COMMENTS:
- erasmus, 2007-01-12: 07:46:00
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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)