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DEFINITION: To follow a diet with such rigor and fervor that it consumes all your energy, and throws everything, even your desserts, out of proportion.
Verboticisms
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Foodoo
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: foo-doo
Sentence: Having no luck with Atkins, Sue turned to the ancient religion of portion control and fudge avoidance, foodoo.
Etymology: food, voodoo
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COMMENTS:
does foodoo deal with deities or dieties - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-23: 15:22:00
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Encompadiet
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: en-com-pah-die-ett
Sentence: Jules knew she was beginning to suffer from severe encompadiet ever since she dreamt of diving into an enormous vat of chocolate pudding that was the size of her hometown.
Etymology: encompass + diet
Preemptivorous
Created by: Dboozer
Pronunciation: pree-empt-iv-or-ous
Sentence: Julie was so preemptivorous that she would throw herself on OTHER'S desserts to save them from over-indulging.
Etymology: pre-emptive + vorous (as in "omnivorous," "carnivorous," etc.)
Sorbetriety
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: sore/beh/try/ity
Sentence: Her decision to ingest only iced fruit puree led to her sorbetriety.
Etymology: sobriety + sorbet
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COMMENTS:
I'd say a sorbet made from melon balls would be quite sobering indeed. ;)) - Kyoti, 2007-07-23: 20:13:00
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Fastnatic
Created by: jesster
Pronunciation: fast - nat - ic
Sentence: Amy was such a fastnatic when she was on the Grapefruit Diet that she refused to eat the dessert we had prepared especially for her - fruit salad containing only grapefruit.
Etymology: fast (to abstain from food ) + fanatic (marked by excessive enthusiasm and often intense uncritical devotion)
Kamicakeze
Created by: tatterdemalion
Pronunciation: Ka-me-cake-zee
Sentence: The woman kamicakezed with such fervor that breadcrumbs looked like cupcakes, chocolate syrup looked like oil, and even the parsley gracing her plate looked like the Jolly Green Giant.
Etymology: "kamikaze" + "cake" + some fudging of the word type
Miscake
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: miss + cake
Sentence: Oh, this pastry is going to be a miscake, I just know it... why can't I ever stick to a diet?
Etymology: Mistake. But with cake. Yep.
Comments:
Oops... Sorry for the delay getting the definition up this morning. I was so fixated measuring my morsels that I ate my words. ~ James
KristinA - 2007-07-23: 12:54:00
Interesting. There sure are a lot of "Susan/Suzy/Sue" appearing with today's definition....
Maybe Suzy has an eating reorder ~ James
purpleartichokes - 2007-07-23: 14:16:00
Now listen people what I'm telling you, A-keep away from-a Runaround Sue...
purpleartichokes - 2007-07-23: 14:17:00
(so sue me.)
Osomatic - 2007-07-23: 15:52:00
Wake up, little susie! The definition is late! (Actually for me it's awesome, because normally these are posted in what is the middle of the night for me.)
Clayton - 2007-07-23: 17:51:00
Funny, I'm currently eating at Suzy Q's in downtown Denver. I'll be rejoining you in October, if anybody misses me. In the meantime, be creative! I stole that line.
Kyoti - 2007-07-23: 20:16:00
Although none feature the eating habits of a boy named Sue. How do you do?
Jabberwocky - 2007-07-24: 14:09:00
Hey Clayton - if you check in again, we do miss you. Have a great summer!