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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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Cuisiniac
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: kweh-ZEEN-e-ak
Sentence: Marcy is a cuisiniac who is totally obsessed with nutritional values in all the foods she eats, is a dedicated calorie counter and is borderline phobic about the fat content of foods.
Etymology: Blend of 'cuisine' (food fare) and 'maniac' (A person who has an excessive enthusiasm or desire for something)
Southbeachedwhaling
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: south/beached/whale/ing
Sentence: Sue successfully dropped 100 pounds by southbeachedwhaling, imagining each morsel of food had the potential to return her to her former hump-back proportions.
Etymology: South Beach Diet, beached whale
Obesessity
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
Unfatuation
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: unføtʃəweɪʃən
Sentence: When it comes to dieting Harold has an unfatuation. He spends so much time trimming fat from his meat he barely has time to eat.
Etymology: un (not) + fat (a natural oily or greasy substance occurring in animal bodies) + infatuation (be inspired with an intense but short-lived passion or admiration for)
Dietllucinate
Created by: ahwinters
Pronunciation: die-it-loose-in-ate
Sentence: When she would dietllucinate she'd feel that sweets were out to kill her.
Etymology: Diet + Hallucinate
Dietiquette
Created by: whimsy
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Her daily dietiquette proceedings consisted of raving at the dessert cake as she ate her salad.
Etymology: diet + etiquette
Trinime
Created by: adbern
Pronunciation: Tri-nime
Sentence: ooohhwww I want, but it's trinime
Etymology: tricky nice meal
Calorage
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation:
Sentence: woman destroys donut shop in fit of calorage
Etymology:
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:
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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