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DEFINITION: To leave food on your plate, not for the starving children in the world, but so you don't get fat.
Verboticisms
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Skeletosis
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Because of her skeletosis, she felt if she had one more bite her beautiful bones might not show to their advantage
Etymology:
Slimhibition
Created by: chris
Pronunciation: slim-hib-ish-un
Sentence: Torn between her love of food and her desire to stay a size 6, Vanessa practised slimhibition whenever she ate out
Etymology: slim + inhibition
Foodiephobic
Created by: queeny
Pronunciation: food e fo bic
Sentence: You won't find any foodiephobics in Africa. They like a little junk in the trunk! Yee haw!
Etymology:
Carbocutter
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: car/bo/cut/er
Sentence: The "carbocutter" had to admit that after losing 200 lbs. in just four weeks, the postman rang three times, the paramedic twice, and the putz from next door, only once.
Etymology: "carbohydrates": synonymous with jumbo seats in airplanes, plus-size pyjamas, and strapless sneakers + "Cutter": associated with the swift separation of something that may result in an untimely end.
Condenosh
Created by: bjorn
Pronunciation: con-day-NOSH
Sentence: Now that she lived in the Big City and was working (albeit, for the time being, unpaid) for a Big Magazine, Abigail was always careful to nonchalantly condenosh her meals out so as not to look like a total pig - or the frugally raised Midwesterner she was
Etymology: Condé Nast (publisher of various magazines including Vogue and Allure) + nosh
Leavecuisine
Created by: deadpanwalking
Pronunciation: LEEV-kwa-zine
Sentence: I suspected she was on another starvation diet when I noticed after dinner that her plate was full of leavecuisine.
Etymology: Lean Cuisine + Leave
Waistwaste
Created by: alecstevenson
Pronunciation: waist-waste
Sentence:
Etymology: waist + waste
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COMMENTS:
waste of time - timmy, 2006-11-20: 17:32:00
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Comments:
- 2006-11-14: 06:11:00
Good one Chris! "Torn between her love of food and her desire to stay a size 6, Vanessa practised slimhibition whenever she ate out."
Jabberwocky - 2006-11-14: 09:11:00
I love nomopotato - it looks just like what she might be saying
queeny - 2006-11-17: 14:11:00
Nomopotato identify yourself, excellent word!!!!. I loved LOVED nomo. and Mother is right, it looks like what she would be saying.