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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".
Verboticisms
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Nomble
Created by: Rhyme79
Pronunciation: nomm-ball
Sentence: I love to eat grapes coated in cream cheese and chocolate, but so I don't absorb the fat, I have to nomble it.
Etymology: nom (slang for 'eat'; as in 'om nom nom'.) + nibble + gobble = nomble
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COMMENTS:
Fun word! - hyperborean, 2012-10-15: 10:37:00
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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)
Biziet
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: biz-eye-it
Sentence: She just couldn't understand why she couldn't lose those last 2 pounds no matter what biziet she adopted.
Etymology: bizarre (very strange or unusual, esp. so as to cause interest or amusement) + diet (a special course of food to which one restricts oneself, either to lose weight or for medical reasons)
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COMMENTS:
Very compact! Like it! - metrohumanx, 2008-08-13: 19:56:00
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Richewalesstic
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: rich/chew/a/less/tic
Sentence: The richewalesstic method involves a tic like motion which causes one to chew less and therefore absorb fewer calories.
Etymology: rich + chew + less + tic + ritualistic
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COMMENTS:
Sucking the marrow there owly. Bon apetit! - scrabbelicious, 2008-08-14: 11:00:00
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Idiosyncrasticate
Created by: Clayton
Pronunciation: id-ee-uh-sing-KRAS-ti-keyt
Sentence: Timothy's obsessive idiosyncrastication bordered on the pigoutlandish.
Etymology: idiosyncrasy + masticate
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COMMENTS:
He sounds like a compulsive obnoxious when it comes to food. - petaj, 2007-06-20: 04:01:00
Timothy should get together with Galwaywegian's character - sort of a Jack Sprat scenario - they'd chew and lick the platter clean - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-20: 09:07:00
Timothy could masticate And Gal could lick and suck And so betwixt the two of them The lunch was out of luck - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-20: 11:29:00
Timothy could eat a cake, and Gal could lick the bowl. But neither did so modestly. They had no self-control. - Clayton, 2007-06-20: 17:19:00
Timothy could chew like mad, and Gal would snort it up.
Chomp, grind, smack, slurp, lick, sip, sup. - petaj, 2007-06-20: 23:29:00
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Snactkins
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: sn - akt - kins
Sentence: Rosalie decided to go on the Snactkins diet. It was based on the Atkins diet but it allowed her to act like she was on a diet, while eating little snacks 10 times a day.
Etymology: snack, act, Atkins
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COMMENTS:
very clever - mrskellyscl, 2010-01-14: 09:40:00
I feel like having a snack now... - Nosila, 2010-01-14: 21:50:00
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Constipulsion
Created by: rephil
Pronunciation: kahn-stih-PUL-zhun
Sentence: Ada's numerous constipulsions meant that the waiter's order read like a manual for diffusing a bomb -- which, in fact, it was.
Etymology: compulsion -- an irrational need to do something; consume -- to use, eat; constipation -- a condition where the digestion is stuck in a particular state. Verb: (irr.) Constipuleat
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COMMENTS:
Too bad you can't enter both the noun and verb forms of the definition! - rephil, 2007-06-20: 10:00:00
I like the sound of both of them! - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-20: 10:12:00
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Buffake
Created by: sweetking
Pronunciation: buh-feyk
Sentence: It was maddening to watch her fill an entire plate with desserts and then proceed to eat only the chocolate bits of each item. If she would just eat one full dessert it would have less calories than trying to buffake her way around the meal.
Etymology: combining buffet and fake
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COMMENTS:
let them eat buffake. - scrabbelicious, 2008-08-14: 11:02:00
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Healthfatty
Created by: pungineer
Pronunciation: Health/fatty [say what you see]
Sentence: Darwin was the ultimate healthfatty, he had tried the fadkins, he had tried joining weightworshippers and he had even tried the latest celeb diet craze of masdietication, chewing each mouthful 87.2 times before spitting it out. When he told his friends he was trying the grow your own gruyere diet they decided it was time for another intervention...
Etymology: Suggestion of health plus faddy/fully/fatty with overtonnes of the eat fat to lose fat movement...
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COMMENTS:
Maybe it's because I'm not a Londoner, but I like to pronounce this like a Londoner jew know? Helfatty, init! - scrabbelicious, 2008-08-13: 12:39:00
are your jockeychews too tight scrabby? If anything i'd thought it could rhyme with chapati mmm there probably is a gluten free healthfatty chapati... - pungineer, 2008-08-13: 12:45:00
Jockeychews too tight:) Funny punny. - scrabbelicious, 2008-08-13: 13:26:00
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Snibble
Created by: Pythias
Pronunciation:
Sentence: His gaze was locked in utter horror as she could only snibble and nitpick her way around the pie.
Etymology: selectively nibble
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COMMENTS:
To snibble kibble can cause a quibble. (sorry!) - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-20: 09:18:00
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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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