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DEFINITION: n. Any highly-processed food or beverage in which the natural ingredients have been removed and replaced with artificial flavors and additives. v. To consume food products laced with synthetic sweeteners, imitation flavors, and other carcinogens.
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Alacartificial
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Al-a-cart-i-fish-ull
Sentence: Tom always used the alacartifcial way of dining, he would gorge on anything that included MSG or had been synthetically altered in some way. Being only twenty-one he didn't think of what this might be doing to the state of his health a few years down the line.
Etymology: A la carte(a type of menu) + Artificial(contrived or affected) = Alacartificial
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COMMENTS:
well-crafted word - silveryaspen, 2009-01-29: 08:34:00
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Unhefdite
Created by: Xanman12321
Pronunciation: Uhn-heff-dait
Sentence: Wow, those potato chips were unhefdites, you know? Oops, I unhefdited! Uh oh...
Etymology: Unhealthy diet -> Unhefdite
Pepsicodology
Created by: scrabbelicious
Pronunciation: pép:see:cód:ol:oh:gee
Sentence: Séamus and his sweet tooth went everywhere together. Always pestering him for a treat, Séamus had a cunning plan that he, his sweet tooth and his liquid diet could be made live in harmony with a bit of pepsicodology.
Etymology: Pepsi : Sweet drink suitable for athletes who run at least one marathon per day, every day. Codology : an Irish colloquialism indicating the wool is being pulled somewhere reasonably close by.
Fastfraud
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: junkfeed
Sentence: Jim began junkfeeding as a child. As a young adult he consumed his favourite, seriously overprocessed, junkfeed in quantities disproportionate to his energy needs so that he became unhealthy. His doctors warned him to avoid the common, easy to reach, junkfeed and return to a simpler diet rich in real food. Jim learned what real food is but unfortunately couldn't find real foods around him...
Etymology: junkfeed v and n. from junk or useless stuff/what has no purpose and the verb feed, for an organism's tendency to eat for necessity and not the enjoyment of food
Riceboobles
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: rice - boo - buls
Sentence: When it comes to a bit of flavour instead of nutrition there's nothing like a bowl of cornfakes and riceboobles.
Etymology: rice bubbles + boob (mistake)
Mystreats
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: mis-treet-z
Sentence: Esau, who always chose the quick and easy way to get his food, grew fat in the land on his convenient die-et of mystreats.When he suddently departed this life from cardiac arest, his secondary cause of death was listed as "mystreatment." Full stop.
Etymology: From MYSTERY, things unexplainable + TREATS, small pleasures; also playing on MISTREAT, to misuse, abuse
Nutrideficient
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: noo-treh-de-FISH-unt
Sentence: Cameron was in complete denial about the 'power drink' he consumed daily, thinking it was packed with added vitamins, minerals and nutriments but it was in fact, totally nutrideficient.
Etymology: Blend of nutrition and deficient
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COMMENTS:
One summer I ran into a deli to get a Yoo-Hoo and was amazed by the daunting display of "sports drinks" and other things of dubious origins. - metrohumanx, 2009-01-29: 01:41:00
Excellent word! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-29: 08:39:00
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Pseudapop
Created by: otherguy
Pronunciation: soōdapäp
Sentence: Sodapop is bad enough, but substituting artificial flavoring and sweeteners for anything almost natural change it over to pseudapop.
Etymology: pseudo: fake + pop: soda
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COMMENTS:
Nice word. - artr, 2009-01-29: 06:11:00
Very good! - Mustang, 2009-01-29: 07:17:00
excellent - Jabberwocky, 2009-01-29: 09:43:00
Perfect fit for word definition good job! :) - abrakadeborah, 2009-04-24: 07:16:00
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Nutrideficient
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: new-treh-de-FISH-unt
Sentence: Filbert was in complete denial about the 'power drink' he consumed daily, thinking it was packed with added vitamins, minerals and nutriments but it was in fact, totally nutrideficient.
Etymology: Blend of 'nutrition' (beneficial attribute of food) and 'deficient' (in short supply-absent)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James