Verboticisms

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: wahy-niv-er-uhs

Sentence: Angie doesn't eat meat. She thinks it's cruel. She doesn't believe in it. She only consumes plants and fruit. And if that fruit happens to be fermented... I guess you could call her winivorous.

Etymology: wine (the fermented juice of grapes) + herbivorous (plant-eating)

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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: lumina

Pronunciation: vej/i/scare/ian

Sentence: Louise had reason to be worried about her health lately. It seemed the drinking and smoking was finally taking a toll. She knew she had to go for her annual physcial soon, and just the thought of facing her doctor after one year of no change in habits was enough to get her downing another "stiff one." She decided since she had three weeks until the appointment, maybe some juicing, fasting and raw foods would be of some benefit. Yes, she had decided to become a vegescarian even if just until she had all the blood work done.

Etymology: vegetarian + scare To be scared into cleaning up ones diet.

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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: MrDave2176

Pronunciation: SAH-tiss-vice

Sentence: Marjory's smoking and drinking habits were noting compared to her particular satisvice of herbal teas and organic foods. Unfortunately Whole Foods didn't sell her brand of cigarettes otherwise she could have shopped there exclusively.

Etymology: Satisfy + vice

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: vej-TIP-uhl

Sentence: Bob a prodigal son notorious for his late night lavish spending on food and drink; hypocritical for his pious preaching of the importance of daily vegetipple.

Etymology: Blend of VEGETABLE: any plant whose fruit, seeds, roots, tubers, bulbs, stems, leaves, or flower parts are used as food, as the tomato, bean, beet, potato, onion, asparagus, spinach, or cauliflower & TIPPLE: to drink intoxicating liquor, esp. habitually or to some excess.

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COMMENTS:

cute - Jabberwocky, 2008-09-10: 12:32:00

Love it... - Nosila, 2008-09-10: 21:42:00

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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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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: vēgən-droid

Sentence: In her latest phase, Sally had become a vegandroid, spouting the proper platitudes, only shopping in health food stores and feigning illness at the thought of red meat. The fact that she still smokes does little to curb her verve.

Etymology: Vegan (a person who does not eat or use animal products) + android (in science fiction) a robot with a human appearance)

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great word - Jabberwocky, 2008-09-10: 12:31:00

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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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Created by: ettutortilla

Pronunciation: Die-et-kot-o-mize

Sentence: Jennifer absolutely abhors the disgusting chemicals used in consumer products these days, especially if they can make her fat. Since cigarettes tend to keep her skinny and a steady influx of alcohol holds thoughts of dying alone at bay, however, she's had to dietchotomize her lifestyle.

Etymology: A combination of "diet" and "dichotomize." Literally meaning to break one's diet into two or more well-defined groups.

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