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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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Southbeachedwhaling
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: south/beached/whale/ing
Sentence: Sue successfully dropped 100 pounds by southbeachedwhaling, imagining each morsel of food had the potential to return her to her former hump-back proportions.
Etymology: South Beach Diet, beached whale
Rumenate
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: RUE-men-ayt
Sentence: Though his stomach grumbled about it, Jim rumenated over even the smallest crumb.
Etymology: rumen (the "fermentation vat par excellence" of the digestive tract) + ruminate (to fixate on, think about)
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
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".
Belliphobic
Created by: jrogan
Pronunciation: bel-lee-foh-bik
Sentence: Richard was so belliphobic that he couldn't even look at a dessert plate without loosing his cookies.
Etymology: belly + phobia = fear of bellies
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COMMENTS:
Bellissimo - Nosila, 2009-08-18: 01:07:00
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Calorage
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation:
Sentence: woman destroys donut shop in fit of calorage
Etymology:
Deliciophobia
Created by: theshirkaholic
Pronunciation: delishafobia
Sentence: due to her constant crash dieting, abigail developed Deliciophobia, and one day had a panic attack whilst passing a patisserie.
Etymology:
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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Rigormordessertis
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: rig-er-mowr-dez-ur-tiss
Sentence: I'm not going to lose a pound if rigormordessertis sets in
Etymology: rigor mortis + more dessert; it's a play on rigor mortis, which is when dead people get stiff, in that you're rigorously eating more dessert...