Verboticisms

Created by: dmartinb

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: fad dikt

Sentence: Beth was a faddict of any new diet that captured her imagination. She truly believed that eating vegan or other extreme diets would offset her dependence on smokes and drink. She would have had better luck on the vice cream diet, if there was such a thing!

Etymology: Fad (an interest followed with exaggerated zeal) & Addict (someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance; abrupt deprivation of the substance produces withdrawal symptoms)

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Created by: jimmmm

Pronunciation: ever-clear-conscience

Sentence: Being a "barnivore", Beth completely abstained from eating animal products, allowing her to smoke and drink with an everclearconscience.

Etymology: a delicious blend of Everclear and "clear conscience"

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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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Created by: vmalcolm

Pronunciation: /ædipəkrit/

Sentence: Oh! Come on Anne, you're such an addipocrite. Do you really think that by stop eating fats you'll gain all the health you've lost in the past last 10 years of your life?

Etymology: ADDIPOCRITE. From Addict (one who is addicted, as to narcotics or a compulsive activity) + Hypocrite (a person given to hypocrisy)

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COMMENTS:

very nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-09-10: 12:29:00

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: kom-pen-sot

Sentence: Finding her liver spots to be totally unacceptable, Sue became a compensot, eating only vegetables and drinking plenty of water through the daylight hours.

Etymology: compensate, sot (drunkard)

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COMMENTS:

Sot is a great word. Haven't heard it in ages. Great combination! - Scrumpy, 2007-10-10: 08:38:00

very funny - Jabberwocky, 2007-10-10: 10:23:00

Sot is a great word. Very creative! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-10-10: 17:30:00

Thanks! Sot is one of those words we seemed to have buried years ago. - purpleartichokes, 2007-10-10: 19:23:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: ōvərflô

Sentence: After a poor health report Richard decided to give his diet an overhaul. No more meat, no more dairy products, fresh local vegetables only... The plan has become an overflaw since he started smoking and drinking more to calm his jangled nerves.

Etymology: overhaul (take apart a piece of machinery or equipment in order to examine it and repair it if necessary) + flaw (a fault or weakness in a person\\\'s character)

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Created by: Koekbroer

Pronunciation: Sel-ek-ti-vor

Sentence: As a selectivore Rachel would only eat the edemame at the party but get plastered on the scotch.

Etymology: selective + vore

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COMMENTS:

good one - Nosila, 2010-02-05: 17:19:00

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Created by: aayeye

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Sentence: Ethyl is such a macrobioticrite with a carrot in one hand, and a cigarette in the other.

Etymology: Macrobiotic+hypocrite

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Created by: dogran

Pronunciation: sdree-gan

Sentence: Oh don't be such a Sdreegan its only a little animal trans fat i am sure if you drink enough it will evaporate with the alcohol

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