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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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Heftovers
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: heft-o-vurz
Sentence: The food was flabulous, but because she was trying to lose weight, there were plenty of heftovers.
Etymology: heft, leftovers
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COMMENTS:
funny - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-03: 09:37:00
Did she take the heftovers home in a heftybag? - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-03: 11:39:00
At the beheft of restaurant management, she carted it home in a taxiflab. - Clayton, 2007-07-03: 17:15:00
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Sustentashun
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: sus/ten/tay/shun
Sentence: She maintained her skeletal looks by practicing strict sustentashun
Etymology: sustentation + shun
Celluleftovers
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: Sell-yoo-left-oh-verz
Sentence: Margie, wearing her skinny jeans, worriedly decided to leave a few celluleftovers.
Etymology: Cellulite+leftovers
Etheremeal
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: e/ther/ee/meel
Sentence: Ooh I am just so divinely delicate and dainty. My tiny frame can only sustain an etheremeal.
Etymology: ethereal + meal
Foodthrift
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈfudˌθɹɪft/
Sentence: The sign at the buffet read: "Don't be a foodthrift. Eat all you want, but please, take only what you can eat."
Etymology: Like a spendthrift, but with food.
Discislim
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: dis/ci/slim
Sentence: In order not to get fat, she had to work to discislim her outlook on food, especially desserts.
Etymology: discipline + slim
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COMMENTS:
haha...love it - remistram, 2007-07-03: 15:09:00
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Slimpick
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: SLIHM-pihk
Sentence: Alex resolved not to date women who would slimpick fifty-dollar dinners.
Etymology: slim + slim pickins + picky
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COMMENTS:
good one - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-03: 14:13:00
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