Vote for the best verboticism.
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.
Verboticisms
Click on each verboticism to read the sentences created by the Verbotomy writers, and to see your voting options...
You have two votes. Click on the words to read the details, then vote your favorite.
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
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".
Carbohydraniac
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kar bo hy dray nee ak
Sentence: Jenny had become such a carbohydraniac after all her many diets, that she avoided carbs like the plague. Over the years she had tried Dr.Atkins, Weight Watchers, South Beach, Scarsdale and every other popular diet plan. She finally developed her own program and Ms. Craig is now wealthy like those other diet's designers. It is good to find a method to lose weight...it is even better to find one that allows you to get rich by helping others lose weight!
Etymology: Carbohydrate (an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain;) & Maniac (an insane person)
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.
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)
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.
Obseleat
Created by: verndo
Pronunciation: Ahb so lee t
Sentence: Wendy is so obsoleat with this new diet! If she isn't careful, she's gonna kill herself!
Etymology: Obsess + Eat = Obsolete (Death)
Slimbalance
Created by: chris
Pronunciation: slim-bal-ans
Sentence: Jade's life was so slimbalanced that she wouldn't even lick a stamp for fear of the calories it might contain.
Etymology: slim + imbalance
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
If she's slimbalanced, doesn't theat make her a slimbacil? lol. - TrJoshB, 2007-01-24: 16:53:00
----------------------------
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:
