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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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Diminuendize
Created by: jimroberts
Pronunciation: di-min'yoo-en'diz
Sentence:
Etymology: From "diminuendo", a musical shrinkage most likely to occur toward the butt end of a piece.
Atkinize
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: atkin - ize
Sentence: Jill would Atkinize over her diet plans to the point of messing herself up.
Etymology: Atikins + ize
Dietaholic
Created by: ubgrud
Pronunciation: dye-et-a-hol-ic
Sentence: You know that new "only white food" diet she's on? Last week she spraypainted chocolate cake white. I wonder if she is a dietaholic.
Etymology: Diet + aholic
Foodenfeeblement
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: FOOD-en-FEE-bull-ment
Sentence: Foodenfeeblement had descended on the fat fighters. They were so obsessed with their dieting, they felt consumed but it.
Etymology: food + enfeeble
Foodessive
Created by: lebeast
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Cupcake : "this is one foodessive broad".
Etymology: food+obsessed
Nuketritionist
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: newk trish yun ist
Sentence: her inner nuketritionist exploded every menu she dreamed up
Etymology: nutritionist, nuke
Fatanic
Created by: Carla
Pronunciation: fat-an-ic
Sentence: Myrtle's friends were concerned by her fatanicism. She spent longer reading the dietary information printed on food packaging than she did consuming the contents. Myrtle resisted their suggestions that her behaviour was fatanical - she preferred to describe it as a complumpsion.
Etymology: fat + fanatic (a person marked or motivated by an extreme, unreasoning enthusiasm) / Wordplay on Satanic
Obseleat
Created by: verndo
Pronunciation: Ahb so lee t
Sentence: Wendy is so obsoleat with this new diet! If she isn't careful, she's gonna kill herself!
Etymology: Obsess + Eat = Obsolete (Death)
Hyperyacking
Created by: Sed8ed
Pronunciation: hi-per-yah-king
Sentence: Mary Kate and Ashley often find themselves hyperyacking before each new audition to lose those pesky few pounds.
Etymology:
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
