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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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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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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)
Reodorize
Created by: natheist
Pronunciation:
Sentence: He was expecting the workout to energize his metabolism, but to reodorize was a complete surprise!
Etymology:
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
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
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
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)
Libinast
Created by: adbern
Pronunciation: Li-bi-nast
Sentence: Hey man, I'm a libinast
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.