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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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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'
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)
Perspiramplification
Created by: ahwinters
Pronunciation: purse-per-ahmp-lih-fih-ca-shun
Sentence: His perspiramplification prevented him from going full out to get "ripped."
Etymology: Perspire + Amplification
Reekphysique
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: reek fiz eek
Sentence: Rico went to the gym to seek, a more sleek physique. But it was bleak...he caused ladies to shriek and chaos did he wreak. His glands caused their eyes to leak and another gym seek. Poor Rico was not meek and his efforts gave him a reekphysique. He wanted to be chic and look like a Golden God Greek, so he went to the Plastic Surgery Boutique. They gave him a tweak and he is longer a freak. All the girls want a peek at his new physique. The motto he now can speak is No Sweat!
Etymology: Reek (a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant; to smell badly and offensively) & Physique (alternative names for the body of a human being;constitution of the human body)
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COMMENTS:
Sounds like a great name for a grunge/punk band - mrskellyscl, 2009-08-13: 10:05:00
Sounds like a great name for a grunge/punk band - mrskellyscl, 2009-08-13: 11:26:00
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Smellytubby
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation: smelleetubbee
Sentence: His expanding waistline and less than pleasing armpit aroma was all that was needed to confirm a severe case of smellytubby.
Etymology: smelly = lacking fragrance tubby = corpulent
Pitpong
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: pit/pahng
Sentence: He was the pitpong champion of the gym, marginally stronger than Forrest Gump (whew!!)
Etymology: pit + ping pong
Perspiraspiration
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: per-spur-ass-per-A-shun
Sentence: Though Bob's six-pack had atrophied into a keg, his perspiraspiration was quite strong.
Etymology: perspiration, aspiration
Glanduscularity
Created by: sirshade
Pronunciation: glan/dusk/u/lare/i/tee
Sentence: the glanduscularity for cubicle worker john, was fierce!
Etymology: a combination of gland (as in sweat glands) and muscularity
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."
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.