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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.
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Vernillardalyze
Created by: catgrin
Pronunciation: vur-nl-ahrd-al-ahyz
Sentence: Looking at the scale in March makes many women frustrated as they vernillardalyze.
Etymology: vernal + ill + lard + analyze = spring + sick + fat + thought
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
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:
Springdumb
Created by: BMott
Pronunciation: spring-dumb
Sentence: She realized she had suffered a case of springdumb all winter as she munched on twinkies to keep the winter blues at bay, forgetting that spring bikinis would soon be in fashion.
Etymology: Spring: That lovely time of year when everything blooms, but your body isn't supposed to. -- Dumb: The ability to ignore the obvious.
Festivitransation
Created by: igho1207
Pronunciation: fes-tiv-it-ran-say-shun
Sentence: The process of festivitransation can be the worst part of early spring for some people.
Etymology: festive/trans(opposite)/ation(as in sensATION).
Fatblues
Created by: toralora
Pronunciation: Fatt/bloos
Sentence: I don't feel like going out tonight, I have the fatblues going on.
Etymology: fat + blues (depression)
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
Autoblubiphobia
Created by: buck180
Pronunciation: aw/tow/blub/uh/FOE/bee/yah
Sentence: Looking in the mirror Susan realized that she'd never lose her excess winter weight before beach season. It was at that precise moment that her autoblubiphobia kicked in causing her to cringe and despise her perfect size 6 frame.
Etymology: A combining of: The prefix AUTO - pertaining to self. BLUBBER - whale fat. And the Latin suffix PHOBIA - an irrational fear.
Fatulation
Created by: ekath
Pronunciation: fatch-you-lay-shun
Sentence: When someone has flatulation and fatulation too, i don't know which is worse: tolerating the stench or listening to then complain about being overweight.
Etymology: from fat + flatulation a literal "sinking feeling"
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Today's definition was suggested by purpleartichokes.
Thank you purpleartichokes! ~ James