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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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Taebeeo
Created by: KristinA
Pronunciation: tie-bee-oh
Sentence: The New Year's resolution to loose weight is, in reality, an exodus of couch potatoes to the gym for a month or two of taebeeohing.
Etymology: Tae Bo + B.O. (body odor)
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
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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Sweatstrong
Created by: riomarde
Pronunciation: sweat/strong
Sentence: I badly need a shower after that sweatstrong workout.
Etymology: strong + sweat
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
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
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
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
