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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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Thinbitious
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: thin - bish - us
Sentence: Being thinbitious, Sally would not eat any desserts, foods with too many carbs or sodium. She did not want to retain water or risk adding any pounds to her already skeletal appearance.
Etymology: thin, ambitious
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COMMENTS:
Good word. - mrskellyscl, 2009-08-17: 08:01:00
anorexcellent! - jrogan, 2009-08-17: 08:58:00
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Grubsess
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /gr&b-'ses/
Sentence: Antonio's grubsession with his low-carb diet lead him to try to pick the bits of breadcrumb out of his mother's meatloaf.
Etymology: From grub + obsess
Consumeater
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kon soom eet er
Sentence: Patty Cake, Patty Cake, baker's daughter. You learned to eat desserts, just like you oughter. When you started reading labels and measuring calories, you took all the glee out of enjoying good food naturally. Now you're on a diet, you've become a consumeater, we liked you way better when you were a diet cheater!
Etymology: Consume (to eat immoderately; serve oneself to, or consume regularly; engage fully) & Eater (someone who consumes food for nourishment)
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COMMENTS:
was she the consummate consumeater who learned to control the consumption of calories? good word - mweinmann, 2009-08-17: 15:50:00
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Ghandivitis
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: gahn/dy/vih/tis
Sentence: Beacause she was such a devout follower of Mahatma Ghandi her persistent dieting for world peace resulted in her developing acute ghandivitis
Etymology: Mahatma Ghandi + gingivitis
Gourmation
Created by: Fenners
Pronunciation: gour - may - shun
Sentence: I have a touch of gourmation
Etymology: gourmet/gourmand + ation
Rumenate
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: RUE-men-ayt
Sentence: Though his stomach grumbled about it, Jim rumenated over even the smallest crumb.
Etymology: rumen (the "fermentation vat par excellence" of the digestive tract) + ruminate (to fixate on, think about)
Unjustdessert
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation: phonetic
Sentence: The chocolate eclair was begging to be eaten. Her hands hovered over it, yet she was able to resist. Unjustdessert, indeed.
Etymology:
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)
Paravore
Created by: chofu67
Pronunciation: pare a vore
Sentence: Her obsession with eating only from an ever diminishing selection of acceptable foods had turned Edie into a virtual paravore.
Etymology: paranoid + vore (as in omnivore, carnivore, etc.)
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!
