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'Please don't eat that stuff in front of me.'

DEFINITION: v., To eat a strictly regulated diet in order to compensate for a complete lack of control when it comes to drinking. n., A smoker and drinker who becomes a vegan in order to "reverse the damage".

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Lushtritionist

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: lush/trish-uh/ist

Sentence: Amy converted to a very strict high protein and vegetable diet to counter attack her litre a day tequila lunches.

Etymology: lush + nutritionist

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Vegecontrarian

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: vej/eh/contrary/an

Sentence: Mary Mary was quite a strict vegecontrarian, either stuffing her face with fresh veggies or freshly rolled cigarettes, washed down with equal parts of spring water or vodka

Etymology: vegetarian + contrary (contrarian)

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Dietchotomy

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: dīetkätəmē

Sentence: Though Jim decided to ”clean up” what he was eating he found it impossible to give up cigarettes. It created quite a dietchotomy in his life.

Etymology: diet (a special course of food to which one restricts oneself) + dichotomy (a division or contrast between two things that are or are represented as being opposed or entirely different)

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Compensevegetariman

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: Com-pensi-veja-tary-iman

Sentence: Worried about his excessive drinking and smoking, Delbert severely altered his diet, becoming a compensevegetariman.

Etymology: Compensate + vegetarian

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Habitsyouate

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: hu-BITS-yew-ayt

Sentence: Caroline is something of an habitsyouate, believing that people could offset the harmful effects of over indulging in alcohol and tobacco merely by eating what she regarded as healthy foods.

Etymology: Blend of 'habits', and the phrase 'you ate' - A play on the word 'habituate'

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Consumabstainer

davrand

Created by: davrand

Pronunciation: kənˈsjuːməbˈsteɪnə

Sentence: Ellen accepted my Eggplant Parmesan, since we were going to the gym later.

Etymology: From consumer, a person that eats something, and abstainer, a person who restrains themselves from enjoying something.

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Compotsation

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: kom pote say shun

Sentence: Tara believed that if she ate fruit every time she had a drink, she would find compotsation for her vice. Her theory was that if you drank wine, which was made from fruit, you had to eat fruit to make up for the fruit lost during the fermentation process. Following her logic, one would eat potatoes if drinking vodka; sugar cane if drinking rum; roast corn if drinking bourbon and rice if drinking saki. If she had lived during Prohibition, she would have starved!

Etymology: Compote (dessert of stewed or baked fruit) & Compensation (a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors)

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Lushtritionist

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: lush/trish-uh/ist

Sentence: Jenny became a lushtritionist who quite successfully combined a very strict high protein and vegetable diet with her litre a day tequila lunches.

Etymology: LUSHTRITIONIST - noun - from LUSH (drunkard; alcoholic; sot) + NUTRITIONIST (the science, or study of nutrition)

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COMMENTS:

davrand I liked your word because it could easily be a career, a half-assed life coach to the unmotivated and unlikely to change. - davrand, 2018-02-06: 21:24:00

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Artichoker

Created by: wordslikevenom

Pronunciation: Arti-cho-ker

Sentence: Lucinda fumbled around the bottom of her handbag for a matchbox, gasping for a light. Striking the match she lit the end of the celery stick drawing a deep drag from it. The uncontrollable hacking that accompanied being an artichoker must surely have it's benefits?

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Aatkinnemia

Created by: yellowbird

Pronunciation: at-kin-neme-e-ah

Sentence: Joyce may be AAtkinnemic, but I have to admit she seems a lot happier now.

Etymology: Alcoholics Anonymous + Atkins diet + anemia

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-10-10: 00:01:00
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you again remistram! And if you haven't noticed yet, let me tell you -- it's "Food Week" at Verbotomy ~ James

remistram - 2007-10-10: 08:45:00
I went to school with people like this.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-10-11: 01:42:00
I used to be a person like this, but I have given up on the vegetables. ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2010-02-05: 00:44:00
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James