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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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Grubsess
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /gr&b-'ses/
Sentence: Antonio's grubsession with his low-carb diet lead him to try to pick the bits of breadcrumb out of his mother's meatloaf.
Etymology: From grub + obsess
Dietaholic
Created by: ubgrud
Pronunciation: dye-et-a-hol-ic
Sentence: You know that new "only white food" diet she's on? Last week she spraypainted chocolate cake white. I wonder if she is a dietaholic.
Etymology: Diet + aholic
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
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)
Gourmation
Created by: Fenners
Pronunciation: gour - may - shun
Sentence: I have a touch of gourmation
Etymology: gourmet/gourmand + ation
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
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COMMENTS:
If she's slimbalanced, doesn't theat make her a slimbacil? lol. - TrJoshB, 2007-01-24: 16:53:00
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Cuisiniac
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: kweh-ZEEN-e-ak
Sentence: Marcy is a cuisiniac who is totally obsessed with nutritional values in all the foods she eats, is a dedicated calorie counter and is borderline phobic about the fat content of foods.
Etymology: Blend of 'cuisine' (food fare) and 'maniac' (A person who has an excessive enthusiasm or desire for something)
Disciplane
Created by: ToblerOne
Pronunciation: Dis-ci-plane
Sentence: Donna's diet exemplified her disciplane behavior. She was so crazy she wouldn't even eat a tic-tac.
Etymology: Discipline + Insane
Trinime
Created by: adbern
Pronunciation: Tri-nime
Sentence: ooohhwww I want, but it's trinime
Etymology: tricky nice meal
