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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.
Verboticisms
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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'
Fitnasweat
Created by: hamburgerman
Pronunciation: fit na swet
Sentence: alex's fitnasweat made him unapealing to the ladies, forcing him to work out even more. Soon enough, he experienced goalure. he worked himself to hard and died of dehydration.
Etymology: fitness + sweat = fitnasweat
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COMMENTS:
SIMPLE SOLUTION: USE DEODERANT - hamburgerman, 2009-08-20: 21:28:00
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Wuspire
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /wus-'pIr/
Sentence: Lee came back from his jog soaking wet, giving the impression that it'd been an intense workout, but given that he'd only gone to the mailbox and back, it was just wuspiration.
Etymology: From wuss + perspire
Infermention
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: in-fur-men-shun
Sentence: Infermention is present in many cases of resolution-gym-joiners because they smell terrible and have not worked out in two months.
Etymology: intervention + ferment (= gross)
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COMMENTS:
- erasmus, 2007-01-09: 11:07:00
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Aromanator
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: uh-ROM-un-a-ter
Sentence: Upon his return to the gym and his old workout routine, Vince's workout partners quickly learned that the stench of body odor he was giving off made him a particularly repulsive and very unlikeable aromanator.
Etymology: Blend of the words 'aroma' and 'emanate' and is a play on the word 'terminator' from a movie with that title.
Retrofunk
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: REH-trow-funk
Sentence: After only 2 minutes on the heavy bag, Bobby was redolent with that old magic retrofunk. Cool!
Etymology: Retro + funk
Hurtspiration
Created by: sodium
Pronunciation: hurt-speur-ray-shun
Sentence: Phoebe's sore muscles reminded her that for a few more weeks, her New Year's resolution was going to consist of a lot of hurtspiration.
Etymology: Hurt + perspiration
Perspanator
Created by: lebeast
Pronunciation: per-spah-nate-er
Sentence: Tho harmless physically, The Perspanator was known for taking out the strongest of men with his pungent B.O. 'He'll be back'
Etymology: perspire+termanator
Flabberblast
Created by: egonschiela
Pronunciation: flab-er-blast
Sentence: Tyrone's mates were flabberblasted when he peeled off his t-shirt following his first post-Christmas workout.
Etymology: flab (soft body tissue) blast (violent gust) as in flabbergast (to overwhelm with shock)
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.