Verboticism: Foodessive

'This cupcake is evil! I must destroy it, before it destroys me.'

DEFINITION: v. To follow a diet with such rigor and fervor that it consumes all your energy, and throws everything, even your desserts, out of proportion. n. A person who thinks too much about what they eat.

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Foodessive

lebeast

Created by: lebeast

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Sentence: Cupcake : "this is one foodessive broad".

Etymology: food+obsessed

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Cupcakenbia

Created by: wisepenguin

Pronunciation: cup-cake-ken-bia

Sentence: One who may be avoiding desserts and food that affects his/her usual diet is most likely to be suffering from cupcakenbia.

Etymology: desserts such as ''cupcakes'' are no exception to one's ''phobia''

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Fatanic

Carla

Created by: Carla

Pronunciation: fat-an-ic

Sentence: Myrtle's friends were concerned by her fatanicism. She spent longer reading the dietary information printed on food packaging than she did consuming the contents. Myrtle resisted their suggestions that her behaviour was fatanical - she preferred to describe it as a complumpsion.

Etymology: fat + fanatic (a person marked or motivated by an extreme, unreasoning enthusiasm) / Wordplay on Satanic

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Gobbleclobber

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: gob-uhl-klob-er

Sentence: Eve and her friends at work see desserts as an enemy to be vanquished. If someone were to dare to bring something evil into the office they will gobbleclobber it until it is no more.

Etymology: gobble (to swallow or eat hastily or hungrily in large pieces; gulp) + clobber (to defeat decisively; drub; trounce)

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Youthinize

Created by: dontc1

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Rumenate

Created by: maxxy

Pronunciation: RUE-men-ayt

Sentence: Though his stomach grumbled about it, Jim rumenated over even the smallest crumb.

Etymology: rumen (the "fermentation vat par excellence" of the digestive tract) + ruminate (to fixate on, think about)

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Dietllucinate

Created by: ahwinters

Pronunciation: die-it-loose-in-ate

Sentence: When she would dietllucinate she'd feel that sweets were out to kill her.

Etymology: Diet + Hallucinate

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Omnidevhour

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: om nee dev owr

Sentence: Jasmine was such an omnidevhour to her latest food fad regime that she timed herself to eat precisely every 45 minutes for 50 calories worth of food. She gave up her real life as she knew it...it was do or diet!

Etymology: Omnivore (someone who eats all and everything) & Devour (eat)& Devotee (believer) & Hour (every hour)

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Tunneldiet

Created by: Manhattan

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Etymology: Tunnelvision and diet.

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Atkinize

Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: atkin - ize

Sentence: Jill would Atkinize over her diet plans to the point of messing herself up.

Etymology: Atikins + ize

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