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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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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
Perspirength
Created by: vixphilia
Pronunciation: PERS-pee-REN-gth
Sentence: Dude, you've got a serious case of extreme perspirength. Hit the showers now!
Etymology: Agglutination of "Perspiration" and "Strength"
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
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
Sudorifeeble
Created by: Carla
Pronunciation: soo-door-if-eeb-ul
Sentence: The personal trainers smirked to each other as yet another sudorifeeble walked through the gym doors in early January. Full of optimistic resolution, the dolts would sign up to a year's membership. But their feeble exercise attempts would only exert their sudoriferous glands.
Etymology: sudoriferous (bearing or secreting sweat) + feeble
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.
Stenchbench
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: stench/bench
Sentence: After a year long absence from bar bells and bench presses, Sam knew his sweat glands and precious pectorals needed a stenchbench workout.
Etymology: stench + bench
Stalefrail
Created by: BrakX
Pronunciation: stale frail
Sentence: hitting the gym hard after a year break left him with only stalefrail
Etymology:
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.