Verboticism: Diaticism

'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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Debilicake

Created by: loosepiece

Pronunciation: deb - ILL - i - cake

Sentence: Samanthas quest to achieve the perfect weight was proving to be debilicaking. Even the smallest fairy cake took on monstrous proportions by the end of diet day 2.

Etymology: debilitate - to weaken, or encumber cake - the foodsutff designed to make you weaken. But they are evil, EVIL i tell you!

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Deliciophobia

Created by: theshirkaholic

Pronunciation: delishafobia

Sentence: due to her constant crash dieting, abigail developed Deliciophobia, and one day had a panic attack whilst passing a patisserie.

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Exaltarvate

Created by: kankamuso

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Sentence: Every January Jane makes the resolution of dieting. She usually just exaltarvate till February 1st.

Etymology: Exalt + Starvation

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Abstrain

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: abstrān

Sentence: Barbara*s mother is the tour guide for any guilt trip. Barb grew up hearing **Watch what you eat, you don*t want to end up like Aunt Maggie**. The fact that her aunt was adopted and has nothing to do with her genetics doesn*t seem to matter. At every meal she will abstrain from eating anything she enjoys. She has taught herself to cook poorly so that there is little chance of temptation.

Etymology: abstain (restrain oneself from doing or enjoying something) + strain (force a part of one*s body or oneself to make a strenuous or unusually great effort)

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Hallucineat

Created by: hyperborean

Pronunciation: hu-loos-uh-neet

Sentence: If she concentrated hard enough, Sheila could hallucineat without consuming a calorie or sacrificing flavor.

Etymology: hallucinate + eat

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Exacticate

Created by: PolishedAmethyst

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Sentence: I feel sorry for her, she cannot sit down and have a normal meal because she exacticates the whole time she's at the table.

Etymology: Exact(ing) and masticate

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COMMENTS:

Great word. Got my vote. - hyperborean, 2013-09-25: 22:54:00

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Carbohydraniac

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: kar bo hy dray nee ak

Sentence: Jenny had become such a carbohydraniac after all her many diets, that she avoided carbs like the plague. Over the years she had tried Dr.Atkins, Weight Watchers, South Beach, Scarsdale and every other popular diet plan. She finally developed her own program and Ms. Craig is now wealthy like those other diet's designers. It is good to find a method to lose weight...it is even better to find one that allows you to get rich by helping others lose weight!

Etymology: Carbohydrate (an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain;) & Maniac (an insane person)

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Illogicalorie

Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: ill-odj-ick-al-or-ee

Sentence: she knew she was being illogicalorie, but how could she be sure the 'carb-free' lunch was really 'carb-free'..it's not like she had some magic carbohydrate detector...oh god how she longed for a magic carbohydrate detector.....safer just to skip lunch

Etymology: illogical, calorie

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