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DEFINITION: v. To return to the gym after a long layoff to discover that your muscles may be weak, but that your sweat is still strong. n. A person whose sweat is stronger than their muscles.
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Peeuwspirater
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: pee oo spir ay ter
Sentence: When Omar went to the gym, he never had to worry about being crowded out by other fitness buffs. He was such a strong peeuwspirater that people soon left him to his own personal force field to repel nearness to his exertions.
Etymology: Pee-ew (exclamation for a stinky smell) & Perspiration (sweat)
Gymnastinks
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: jimnastinks
Sentence: Harry returned his athletic club after a sizable hiatus. His gymnastinks made it clear that he would have all the room he needed.
Etymology: gymnastics (exercises developing or displaying physical agility and coordination) + stink (a strong unpleasant smell)
Exerspire
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: ex - ur - spire
Sentence: Lonnie went to the gym to exerspire. The only obvious change in his flabby physique was the odorous sweat that poured off his body.
Etymology: exercise, perspire
Odtrophy
Created by: kryptik
Pronunciation: oh-tro-fee
Sentence: No amount of deodorant helps my uncle Bob when he's suffering from serious odtrophy
Etymology: From the words 'odor' and 'atrophy'
Pungentrain
Created by: IanArcher
Pronunciation: PUN'-jin-train
Sentence: So was pungentraining at the gym, and no one dared to come within 10 feet of me. It was awesome!
Etymology: from "pungent" and "train," and sounds eerily like "Pontchartrain."
Exerstinktion
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: ex-a-stink-shun
Sentence: Garry realised why he'd stopped exercising all those years ago when he went back to the gym. He felt exerstinked, feeling exhausted and smelling like someone had died.
Etymology: exertion + stink + extinct
Ouchdorphins
Created by: evhershey
Pronunciation: ouch-dor-fins
Sentence: After the holidays I had a workout that flooded my system ouchdorphines
Etymology: ouch + (en)dorphines
Reekout
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: reekaŹt
Sentence: He can't do many situps and not that many laps around the track but what Billy can do better than anybody else at the gym is sweat. His daily reekout can clear a room faster than a fire drill. After just a few minutes of huffing and puffing he looks like he jogged through the shower.
Etymology: reek (to smell strongly and unpleasantly) + workout (a structured regime of physical exercise)
Comments:
Javeson1 - 2007-01-09: 00:37:00
Hey! No words up! I guess that means mine is first? (except it's not up either...)
Hey Javeson1, You word is first! And it is showing up now. It's also very good. The people in the New Years resolution crowd do have a special aroma about them -- especially after several months of Infermention. ~ James
allwise - 2007-01-10: 02:12:00
yeah, infermention was a good one.