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DEFINITION: n. That sinking feeling you get when you realize that you will be shedding your winter coat, before you can possibly shed the extra layer of insulation (i.e. fat) that you gained over the winter. v. To worry about your weight.
Verboticisms
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Springleaning
Created by: thegoatisbad
Pronunciation: spring-lem-ing
Sentence: Kimberly yawned and began to excavate her way out of her bedding. When she looked out of the window in her Den and saw the daffodils poking through layers of dead leaves and sticks; she knew it was time for springleaning. She began by dusting off and climbing onto the scale. The number was no more grisly than it had been in previous years and she glanced at the number, at herself in the mirror and then began searching her pantry for rice cakes.
Etymology: spring ("time of growth") + gleaning (gather bit by bit) Play on "Spring Cleaning"
Winterbloat
Created by: paintergrl1313
Pronunciation: Winter-bloat
Sentence: My coats gone, but I still have to deal with the holiday winterbloat.
Etymology: Winter + bloat
Expostfatto
Created by: Discoveria
Pronunciation: Ex-post-fat-toe
Sentence: Brenda was more blue than the blues, more down than the Downs, and more depressed than her mattress springs. She was experiencing the post-Christmas dieter's syndrome of expostfatto.
Etymology: From "ex post facto", a legal term referring to laws that change the legal status of events that happened before the law is enacted. (i.e. Hoping that the effect of overeating can be changed.)
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COMMENTS:
The mattress reference is hillarious!! - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-28: 06:42:00
Took me a while to think up...but I didn't want to get rid of the beginning of the sentence! - Discoveria, 2007-02-28: 07:49:00
Silly, but amusing. - ErWenn, 2007-02-28: 11:57:00
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Blubberization
Created by: bettyann9
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The blubberization he was feeling when he saw that extra 200 lbs was overwhelming. Maybe cut out the side of a cow every other day?
Etymology:
Hibermodelosis
Created by: w5lf9s
Pronunciation: hy.ber.mo.del.oh.sis
Sentence: "I can't even see my toes when I'm standing on the scale" he whined. "Not unless you turn the light on", she replied flicking the switch. He was a clear case of hibermodelosis to her.
Etymology: The pathological need (psychosis) to get through the winter (hibernate)looking like a model and the resulting and unavoidable depression
Speedophobic
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: spEED-O-fhO-bic
Sentence: Jill is speedophobic, getting concerned that David is pigging out at the buffet, knowing there is only 20 days to the pool party. She did all she could to keep her food down just picturing David in his tiny polkadotted speedo.
Etymology: speedo,type of swim suit/phobic, fear of
Titanicattack
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: ty/tan/ic/a/tac
Sentence: Tiffany had a titanicattack when she tried to teeter totter with Tony and they tumbled due to her tubbiness
Etymology: titanic (massive and likely to sink) + panic attack
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COMMENTS:
Looks like those alliterattacks are catching! - petaj, 2007-03-01: 05:07:00
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Woewoewoeyourbloat
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: woh-woh-woh-yoor-bloht
Sentence: woewoewoeyourbloat 'nuff to make you scream verily verily verily verily we'll have no more ice cream
Etymology: Woe (an exclamation of grief, distress, or lamentation) + bloat (to become swollen; be puffed out or dilated) A play on (song) Row, row, row your boat
Blimpblight
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: blimp/blite
Sentence: As she ambled across the room like an elephant, she realized that her nightly forays into the refrigerator foraging for leftovers was the cause of a bothersome state her husband often referred to as blimpblight.
Etymology: blimp + blight
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by purpleartichokes.
Thank you purpleartichokes! ~ James