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'This cupcake is evil! I must destroy it, before it destroys me.'

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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Obesessity

Tobester

Created by: Tobester

Pronunciation: obee-sessity

Sentence: Lauren's obesessity controlled her life, up to a point where she developed a phobia for brownies

Etymology: obsessed with obesity

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Dietverticulitis

erasmus

Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: how ever you like, its a long word.

Sentence: amy's dietverticulitis was so bad she hid all the sugar packets in the office.

Etymology: from diet, diverticulitis (a disease of some form) and diverting someones attention towards destroying foods.

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Gourmation

Created by: Fenners

Pronunciation: gour - may - shun

Sentence: I have a touch of gourmation

Etymology: gourmet/gourmand + ation

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Extragastriolistism

Created by: MrBlack

Pronunciation:

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Fatanic

Carla

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

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Belliphobic

Created by: jrogan

Pronunciation: bel-lee-foh-bik

Sentence: Richard was so belliphobic that he couldn't even look at a dessert plate without loosing his cookies.

Etymology: belly + phobia = fear of bellies

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Calorfatic

Created by: Maureen

Pronunciation: cal-or-fat-ic

Sentence: She found the calorfatic diet rather restricting as even a non-fat icypole made her cringe.

Etymology: Calorie - unit of heat. Fat - oily substance found in human bodies. ic-suffix - belonging to.

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Dietizingment

Created by: spickaspanner

Pronunciation: die-et-i-zing-munt

Sentence:

Etymology:

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Dietiquette

whimsy

Created by: whimsy

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Her daily dietiquette proceedings consisted of raving at the dessert cake as she ate her salad.

Etymology: diet + etiquette

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Anoxtremia

Created by: weyrlady

Pronunciation: anox-trem-i-a

Sentence: In the throes of anoxtremia, she refused even the butterless popcorn.

Etymology: A combination of "anorexia" and the phrase "in extremia".

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