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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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Dejaphew
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: day-zha-FEW
Sentence: Jim could blow the dust off his track suit and rub the mold off his Nikes, but he couldn't shake the odor of dejaphew.
Etymology: deja vu + phew
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COMMENTS:
Very good! - wordmeister, 2007-01-09: 19:00:00
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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)
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
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.
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)
Meekreek
Created by: goldenspeechy
Pronunciation: mee-k-ree-k
Sentence: Having spent the entire Christmas break devouring turkey whilst locked in the house without deodorant, Charles knew that he would have to meekreek his flabby ass back to the gym asap.
Etymology: Meek - poor, weak muscles. Reek - stink. Eugh.
Peeuwspirater
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: pee oo spir ay ter
Sentence: When Omar went to the gym, he never had to worry about being crowded out by other fitness buffs. He was such a strong peeuwspirater that people soon left him to his own personal force field to repel nearness to his exertions.
Etymology: Pee-ew (exclamation for a stinky smell) & Perspiration (sweat)
Ouchdorphins
Created by: evhershey
Pronunciation: ouch-dor-fins
Sentence: After the holidays I had a workout that flooded my system ouchdorphines
Etymology: ouch + (en)dorphines
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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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.