Verboticism: Waistnot

'I don't want to get fat'

DEFINITION: To leave food on your plate, not for the starving children in the world, but so you don't get fat.

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Waistnot

Created by: Clayton

Pronunciation: WEYST-not

Sentence: Julie's tendency to waistnot has been complicated in recent years by her insistence that, at a mere 300 lbs., she's fit as a griddlecake.

Etymology: waist + waste not (want not)

Points: 1064

Comments: Waistnot

galwaywegian - 2007-07-03: 05:37:00
she must have a lovely waist (not)

Clayton - 2007-07-03: 07:48:00
It was expansive, going out in all directions, but chiefly the east and the waist.

Jabberwocky - 2007-07-03: 09:31:00
if it was that expansive she could have tied it in a waistknot