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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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Powerspire
Created by: ubgrud
Pronunciation: pow-er-spyr
Sentence: Phew, I need to do something about the powerspiration odor. Hand me that Lysol and bleach.
Etymology: power - strong spiration - from perspiration
Reodorize
Created by: natheist
Pronunciation:
Sentence: He was expecting the workout to energize his metabolism, but to reodorize was a complete surprise!
Etymology:
Misconceperspiration
Created by: ravivalon
Pronunciation: mis-concept-per-spiration
Sentence: The warm good feeling of making the right choice by taking the “extreme body workout class” was fading quickly. Lara knew she can’t leave the room just 5 minutes after the class started. Obviously she had a misconceperspiration of what her body was capable of.
Etymology: misconception + perspiration.
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
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
Superstinkious
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: soo-per-stink-ee-is
Sentence: Wow, that guy has more stench than strength. He is superstinkious!
Etymology: super + stink + supercilious
Pourpore
Created by: chris
Pronunciation: paw-paw
Sentence: After ten minutes of exercise, Damian had pourpored so much that his clothes were soaked and stank. How come water could smell so bad?
Etymology: pour (to flow from) + pore (hole in the skin)
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.