Verboticism: Hexercise
DEFINITION: n. The creepy pounds that sneak onto your waist even though you've been exercising and watching what you eat. v. To exercise rigorously, diet fastidiously, and yet still gain weight.
Voted For: Hexercise
Successfully added your vote for "Hexercise".
You still have one vote left...
Extercise
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ekstərsīz
Sentence: Bob’s extercise program consists of a brisk walk in the morning, down to the local Krispy Kreme. He spends a few minutes boxing up a few of those golden gems. Just a couple basic glazed donuts can put him in a spin. Next step? airobics.
Etymology: extra (added to an existing or usual amount or number) + exercise (activity requiring physical effort)
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
good one! - Nosila, 2010-05-27: 01:01:00
----------------------------
Hexercise
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: hek sir syes
Sentence: Although he exercised regularly and ate properly, Tim felt that someone had cursed him. This hexercise prevented his losing any weight. He was mystified, as he had cut back his donuts to just the one dozen per day. How much more sacrificing could he be expected to do???
Etymology: Hex (cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something) & Exercise (the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit)
Voted For! | Comments and Points
Faticulous
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: fat IC u lus
Sentence: I work out, I try to eat properly and then even after painstaking detailed gym attendance this damn faticulous weight appears.
Etymology: FAT: + RIDICULOUS: not serious, unreasonable METICULOUS: careful attention to detail
Fridgimen
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: fridj a men
Sentence: Martin was on a strict fridgimen to change his eating habits and body shape. Six times a day, he would vigorously stride (a cardio pulmonary exercise) to his refrigerator, open and close the door twenty times (to get a good upper body workout) and then bend over to get a beer from the bottom or reach up into the freezer to get an iced beer mug or ice cream treat (stretching exercises). He might also reach far into the back of the fridge (more stretching) to get cold fried chicken or lemon meringue pie out to eat. His theory was that if the food was cold, his body would have to burn more calories to warm it up so that he could digest it. Yes, his fridgimen was a good thermal workout and yet despite his fine muscle tone (for a 300 pound man) he never seemed to lose any weight. He just put it down to the fact that muscle weighed more than fat...
Etymology: Fridge (nickname for a refrigerator in which the coolant is pumped around by an electric motor, designed to keep foods cold) & Regimen ((medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet)
Fattimosis
Created by: paperhoard
Pronunciation: Fatty-mo-sis
Sentence: Jim seems to gain weight by simply having fatty food near his paunch. Scientifically this process is called fattimosis, fat traveling from one area to another directly through the paunch layer. Jim is now at the point where he can butter his bread simply by rubbing it across his stomach.
Etymology: Fatty + Osmosis
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
Great last line ... Great Verboticism! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-19: 10:46:00
very funny - bookowl, 2008-03-19: 14:23:00
Thank you! - paperhoard, 2008-03-19: 14:46:00
----------------------------
Sixpackflabs
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /siks-pak-FLABZ/
Sentence: Russell had switched to whole-grain doughnuts, light beer, and he was now using only low-fat mayonaise on his bacon and cheese sandwiches, plus, he'd been taking the stairs up to his 2nd floor apartment once a day, instead of using the elevator, and he'd even started doing armchair aerobics — trying to reach down to touch his knees during the TV commercials — and yet he was still gaining weight. Now he had sixpackflabs to show for it, and was well on his way to sporting a keg-belly.
Etymology: blend of; Six-Pack-Abs - well developed abdominal muscles (colloqiualism for the three pairs of bulges apparent in well defined abdominal muscles) + Flabs - soft fatty body tissue (back-formation from flabby, from Middle English, flabband "flapping")
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
Roared with laughter over keg-belly and sixpackflabs! Terrific Wons! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-19: 10:02:00
----------------------------
Infatsyouate
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: In - fats - yoo - ait
Sentence: When Vernon saw how many inches he'd added to his waist in recent months he muttered to himself, "t must have been something infatsyouate."
Etymology: Play on the word infatuate...infatuated with food, Vernon simply ate too much.
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
Exceptional word play! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-19: 09:59:00
I like it! - purpleartichokes, 2008-03-19: 20:49:00
----------------------------
Sofanogood
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: so fa no gud
Sentence: Dwight's campaign motto to lose weight was (sofasogood) but it was turning into (sofanogood) due to his unexpected weight gain on lettuce leaves alone in the first week.
Etymology: So far so good (optimistic) & Sofa (couch) no good (not for weight loss, anyway!)
Fatscites
Created by: lplybon
Pronunciation: "Fat-SI-tees"
Sentence: Over the past four months -- after her doctor scared the beejeesus out of her -- Sophie has religiously exercised, watched what she eats, and even goes to those (sometimes really irritating) support groups. And the result? A total loss of three stinking pounds. And to add insult to injury, Sophie notices that her fascites seems to have grown! How can that be!?!
Etymology: Combination of the word "fat" and "ascites"
Flabbiergasting
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: ffflab eeeeeeeeeer gas ting
Sentence: the situation was very flabbiergasting, which led to flabbiergasping, which was not fun.
Etymology: flabbergasting, flabbier
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
as long as it didn't lead to flabbiergassing - Jabberwocky, 2009-01-09: 13:43:00
Flabulous word! - Nosila, 2009-01-09: 19:54:00
Double Flabulous ... both are great creates! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-09: 20:44:00
----------------------------