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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".
Verboticisms
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Moribanned
Created by: emdeejay
Pronunciation: more I banned
Sentence: Denise was becoming paranoid due to her moribanned state - cigarettes and martini's had taken their toll. By way of compensation she had taken to a strictly ascetic dietary regime, and tried to remind herself of her fathers last words of advice: The more I banned, the more I ...
Etymology: From moribund, as in close to death
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COMMENTS:
I tried to cheapun it up this week, if you catch my drift ... - emdeejay, 2010-02-05: 08:29:00
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Macrobioticrite
Created by: aayeye
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Ethyl is such a macrobioticrite with a carrot in one hand, and a cigarette in the other.
Etymology: Macrobiotic+hypocrite
Vegedetoxicate
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: veg-e-dee-TOXEE-kate
Sentence: At Yuletide, Bob was always the life of the party. And with a beer in one hand, a celery stick in the other, and a fag behind his legumiscreant ear, he always belted out his signature tune: " Cigarettes and Whiskey and Wild, Wild Wheatgerm," whilst resolutely vowing that the New Year would see him vegedetoxicate himself back to full health.
Etymology: Vege (vegetables) & detoxicate to remove poisons.
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COMMENTS:
Now that there's funny! - Scrumpy, 2007-10-10: 08:32:00
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Schlubstitution
Created by: milorush
Pronunciation: shlub - sti - too -shun
Sentence: The now-infamous Thanksgiving "tofurkey" incident became the call to address Margot's insane desire to impose her twisted dietary schlubstitutions on her friends.
Etymology: schlub (a boorish person) + [sub]stitution
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)
Regastrolate
Created by: Nounsense
Pronunciation: rē-gă-strŏ-lāt'
Sentence: After a hedonistic week away in Europe, Helen desperately tried to regastrolate before her parents returned. // The fear of having to use an electrolarynx encouraged Carlos to become a fully-fledged regastrolate.
Etymology: derived from the Greek word gastronomia, γαστρονομία
Overcompenseater
Created by: kearstin
Pronunciation: oh-ver-comm-pen-seat-rr
Sentence: I swear, Cindy is such an overcompenseater, she won't eat spinach "because it's green and [she] like, totally supports green things" but she drinks at least 6 midori sours every time we go out!!! What gives?
Etymology: over + compensate + eat
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)
Selectivore
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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Dietchotomy
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)
Comments:
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.
I used to be a person like this, but I have given up on the vegetables. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James