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DEFINITION: v. tr. To eat in a peculiar or ritualistic manner in an effort to lose weight while consuming more. n. An idiosyncratic method of eating, usually adopted for "health reasons".
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Insuffergest
Created by: weyrlady
Pronunciation: in-suffer-gest
Sentence: I hate having to insuffergest.
Etymology: insufficient + insufferable + suffer +ingest
Vegebation
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: veg/uh/bey/shun
Sentence: Vegebation is the peculiar ritual Tiffany practises. She only drinks her food. She juicers all her vegetables and tofu together and drinks her meals to prevent wear and tear on her teeth and reduce facial aging lines from chewing. Vegebation is also part of the 'X-Man' cultasy which proclaims that this activity will reduce the side effects of youthanesia.
Etymology: vegetarian + libation; vegebation -n. An idiosyncratic method of eating, usually adopted for "health reasons".
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COMMENTS:
veganomics - Nosila, 2010-01-14: 15:49:00
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Tonguetried
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: tung tryde
Sentence: When Tilly was on one of her famous diets, she would only lick her food, not bite or chew it. She told her friends it helped her lose weight when she tonguetried her meals in this manner.
Etymology: Tongue (a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity) & Tried (attempted,tested) & WordPlay on Tongue-tied (unable to speak from shyness embarassment or surprise)
Unoshnique
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: yoo-NOSH-neek
Sentence: Although Bob often chewed his food 82 times before swallowing, and even suggested that humans could survive on air and water alone, his most wacky unoshnique was the claim that any food and, in particular, pizza and ice-cream eaten between meals, didn't contribute to weight gain.
Etymology: Blend of UNIQUE & NOSH: food; nibble; snacking between meal & TECHNIQUE
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COMMENTS:
great word - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-13: 10:32:00
U R Unique! - Nosila, 2008-08-14: 00:31:00
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Manicmange
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: man-ik-monj
Sentence: Jenny Craig insists that manicmange is healthy for their overweight clients.
Etymology: manic (frenzy) + mange (to eat en francais)
Gluttiquette
Created by: airliebee
Pronunciation: gluh-tee-kett
Sentence: Michelle ate each pea, each grain of rice and each lentil individually, with chopsticks, observing carefully the gluttocol of her gluttiquette. Afterwards, she rewarded herself for her excellent adherence with a big bowl of choc-chip caramel swirl extra-sugar superfudge ice-cream, eaten with a fork whilst standing up so that the calories were cancelled out. See also: Gluttocol, the rules of gluttiquette.
Etymology: gluttony + etiquette. (gluttocol = gluttony + protocol)
Idiobalimiritualing
Created by: grasshopper
Pronunciation: id/i/o/bal/im/ir/itual/ling
Sentence: Dr's have informed me that my idiobalimiritualing ways will not only cause me to gain weight but to lose out on many necessary vitamins.
Etymology: idio/idiosyncratic, balimi/balamia, ritual/ritual, ing/action = = idiobalimiritualing
Consumerotic
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kon soom er otik
Sentence: Although already thin, Skinny Minnie adopted a consumerotic attitude towards dining. She ate only healthy, lean, dietetically nutritional foods. She was passionate about passion fruit, loved dates and enjoyed the nut in all nutritional foods. She devoured everything she ate and savoured each morsel. She had highly effective metabolism (don't you hate her?) and could burn calories just by devouring goodies with her eyes (I do). Yes, she was drop fed gorge-ous!
Etymology: Consume (eat, devour,use up) & Erotic (giving pleasure; sexually arousing)
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COMMENTS:
Sometimes I worry about you Nosila - galwaywegian, 2010-01-14: 07:48:00
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Grazecraze
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: graze/craze
Sentence: The latest diet endorsed by leading experts is the grazecraze which involves eating small amounts of food all day whenever one feels the urge - usually by nibbling bits of everyone elses snacks. The guy in the cartoon has been on the diet for a month and is pissed off that the girl is licking his next snack.
Etymology: graze (forage) + craze
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COMMENTS:
Good word - TJayzz, 2008-08-13: 15:21:00
Simple and effective - OZZIEBOB, 2008-08-13: 18:23:00
Zippy word, J-wock! - metrohumanx, 2008-08-13: 19:45:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was inspired by Robert J. Sawyer's Rollback. It may be science fiction, but when Rob gets rolling you can't help but laugh at the details of our daily lives -- like eating pizza. Rollback's pizza moment starts off with, "She was used to the way her husband ate pizza, but couldn't actually say she liked it", and then jumps right into the gory details. Thanks Rob! ~ James
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