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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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Fatkins
Created by: ziggy41
Pronunciation: Fat-kens
Sentence: Look at that, all she ate was her for Thanksgiving was that slice of butter! I didn't know she went on Fatkins, did you?
Etymology: Fat (overweight) + atkins (a popular diet prescribed for weightloss) [this makes an oxymoron I suppose]
Stupidexia
Created by: gonzo
Pronunciation: stupi-dexia
Sentence: poor girl! she suffers from stupidexia.
Etymology: stupid anorexia
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
Clandesdine
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: clan-dess-dine
Sentence: she liked to lose weight in a clandesdine way
Etymology: clandestine, dine
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COMMENTS:
how unromantic! as bad as a candlelessdine. - galwaywegian, 2007-07-04: 05:03:00
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Thinub
Created by: Lapper
Pronunciation: thin-UB
Sentence: When Mary saw the double-portion of prime rib set in front of her, she thinubbed it immediately, being on a diet.
Etymology: Thin and snub.
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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Calorieism
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: kal-or-ee-is-um
Sentence: Sure Bev was a calorieist, but at least she wasn't a racist like her fat friend Nora.
Etymology: calorie (food) + ism (as in hatred or intolerance for)
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COMMENTS:
it sounds like a new religion.... i like it - gonzo, 2007-07-03: 14:37:00
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Declean
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: de-clean
Sentence: Dicky decleaned duck to retain a decent figure. He also declined to clean his dish.
Etymology: decline (say no) + lean (no fat) and de (not) + clean (no food on plate)