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DEFINITION: v., To eat a strictly regulated diet in order to compensate for a complete lack of control when it comes to drinking. n., A smoker and drinker who becomes a vegan in order to "reverse the damage".
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Veganebriate
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: vee gan ee bree ayt
Sentence: Marsha's system to offset her drinking and smoking vices was to veganebriate herself. For each piece of lettuce, she would take a drink from her cocktail glass. This worked fine until the day in Mexico when she accidentally drank the worm in the tequila bottle...
Etymology: Vegan (one whose strict diet consists of no animal or dairy foods) & Inebriate (a chronic drinker;become drunk or drink excessively)
Smokaholigan
Created by: Kat43
Pronunciation: Smoke-A-Hol-i-gan
Sentence: She had to go for an annual check up, but was still drinking and smoking, so she decided to become a Smokaholigan, which is an alcoholic, a smoker, and a vegan all in one
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Schlubstitution
Created by: milorush
Pronunciation: shlub - sti - too -shun
Sentence: The now-infamous Thanksgiving "tofurkey" incident became the call to address Margot's insane desire to impose her twisted dietary schlubstitutions on her friends.
Etymology: schlub (a boorish person) + [sub]stitution
Addipocrite
Created by: vmalcolm
Pronunciation: /ædipəkrit/
Sentence: Oh! Come on Anne, you're such an addipocrite. Do you really think that by stop eating fats you'll gain all the health you've lost in the past last 10 years of your life?
Etymology: ADDIPOCRITE. From Addict (one who is addicted, as to narcotics or a compulsive activity) + Hypocrite (a person given to hypocrisy)
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COMMENTS:
very nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-09-10: 12:29:00
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Moribanned
Created by: emdeejay
Pronunciation: more I banned
Sentence: Denise was becoming paranoid due to her moribanned state - cigarettes and martini's had taken their toll. By way of compensation she had taken to a strictly ascetic dietary regime, and tried to remind herself of her fathers last words of advice: The more I banned, the more I ...
Etymology: From moribund, as in close to death
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COMMENTS:
I tried to cheapun it up this week, if you catch my drift ... - emdeejay, 2010-02-05: 08:29:00
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Habitulate
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: ha-BIT-chew-layt
Sentence: Given her weakness for toxic substances, Miranda decide to habitulate on her diet, eating only 'healthy' foods in order to offset the damages done by drugs and alchohol.
Etymology: Blend of the words 'habit'(an acquired pattern of behavior that often occurs automatically) and 'capitulate' (v. to cease resisting : acquiesce)
Compotsation
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kom pote say shun
Sentence: Tara believed that if she ate fruit every time she had a drink, she would find compotsation for her vice. Her theory was that if you drank wine, which was made from fruit, you had to eat fruit to make up for the fruit lost during the fermentation process. Following her logic, one would eat potatoes if drinking vodka; sugar cane if drinking rum; roast corn if drinking bourbon and rice if drinking saki. If she had lived during Prohibition, she would have starved!
Etymology: Compote (dessert of stewed or baked fruit) & Compensation (a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors)
Consumabstainer
Created by: davrand
Pronunciation: kənˈsjuːməbˈsteɪnə
Sentence: Ellen accepted my Eggplant Parmesan, since we were going to the gym later.
Etymology: From consumer, a person that eats something, and abstainer, a person who restrains themselves from enjoying something.
Lushtritionist
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: lush/trish-uh/ist
Sentence: Amy converted to a very strict high protein and vegetable diet to counter attack her litre a day tequila lunches.
Etymology: lush + nutritionist
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you again remistram! And if you haven't noticed yet, let me tell you -- it's "Food Week" at Verbotomy ~ James
remistram - 2007-10-10: 08:45:00
I went to school with people like this.
I used to be a person like this, but I have given up on the vegetables. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James