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DEFINITION: To return to the gym after a long layoff to discover that your muscles may be weak, but that your sweat is still strong.
Verboticisms
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Perspithetic
Created by: administraitor
Pronunciation: per-spee-thet-ic
Sentence: His eyes red and raw from having sand kicked into them, Howard finally returned to Joe’s Gym, only to find that his perspithetic efforts on the weight machine caused him more embarrassment than he’d felt on the beach!
Etymology: perspire + pathetic
Calistenchics
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: cal/i/stench/ics
Sentence: Wow - these calistenchics are producing such huge muscles and such a strong manly scent - I'll soon be the pitpong champion of the gym.
Etymology: calisthenics + stench
Exerstenchal
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: ex-err-stench-ul
Sentence: after the session at the gym proved exerstenchal, he wondered if there was any meaning left in working out
Etymology: exercise, stench, existential
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COMMENTS:
Then he camuserated with his friends and said he had to sartre out his nietzsche for exerstenchal workouts. They advised him to never let his kierkegaard down. - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-26: 14:14:00
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Streo
Created by: missmurder
Pronunciation: stree-oh
Sentence: The man was surprised when he found out he had streo.
Etymology: strong+body oder
Stenchpress
Created by: ChristopherAndersen
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COMMENTS:
A google search tells me rikboyee came up with this word before I did. But it's not on the list anymore. Verbotomy allowed me to enter it. Are we losing words? - ChristopherAndersen, 2007-08-01: 00:23:00
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Brawngrance
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: brawn/grance
Sentence: Butch was tired of all his friends giving him a hard time about his body odour after working out. They would joke about his foul-lifting, or punging-iron, or ask how his stenchercise, exereektion, stinkercise, expirercise or smellertion went that day, but he, being the wholesome all around hard working, iron pumping, profuse sweating positive person that he was, began referring to his manly odour as brawngrance, the smell of a champion.
Etymology: brawn + fragrance
Experspise
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: EHKS-pur-spize
Sentence: Alex's girlfriend wouldn't hug him, because the results of his experspise were visually evident from ten feet away--and aromatically evident from twenty.
Etymology: excerise + perspire
Bobuilderdy
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: boh-bill-der-dee
Sentence: Stanley was glad that he stunk, he noticed that his bobuilderdy attracted attention from the ladies.
Etymology: b.o. (body odor)+ body + builder
Gymwhiff
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: Jim + wif
Sentence: He was a flabby dumb-bell who, after starting an early morning, get-fit program, never thought to shower his gymodorous self before swithering to the office. His gymwhiff was so strong that fellow workers avoided this gymnauseous sweat-trough like the plague.
Etymology: "Gym" of (gymnasium) + Whiff. Cognates: gymwhiffer, gymwhiffs, gymwhiffish, gymwhiffing.
Machaintmo
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: mack-aint-mo
Sentence: With desperation in his eyes, Leo dragged one foot in front of the other on the slowly moving treadmill. That weights session had enervated him leaving the powerful yet tangy scent of body odour lingering in his nostrils. It was a growing realisation that he was machaintmo.
Etymology: machismo + aint
