Verboticism: Bovision

'Yikes! Spring is almost here and this stupid scale is still wrong.'

DEFINITION: n. That sinking feeling you get when you realize that you will be shedding your winter coat, before you can possibly shed the extra layer of insulation (i.e. fat) that you gained over the winter. v. To worry about your weight.

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Bovision

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Pronunciation: Bow-Viz-Shun

Sentence: As Amy stepped before the mirror on that warm March morning, she realized that those cold winter months spent at the trough of comfort food had taken its toll....her sudden bovision causing her to reel back in disgust, crying 'My God, I'm a cow'

Etymology: A juxtoposition of the term "bovine", pertaining to a ruminant mammal and "vision", the act of capturing the light reflected off an object via the optic nerve. Also captures the want of change per the word 'revision'

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