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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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Vegebation
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: veg/uh/bey/shun
Sentence: Vegebation is the peculiar ritual Jenny practises. She is a vegetarian who only drinks her food. She juicers all her vegetables and tofu together and drinks her meals. Vegebation is part of the 'X-Man' cultasy which proclaims that this activity will reduce the side effects of youthanesia and prevent wear and tear on teeth and reduce facial aging lines from chewing.
Etymology: VEGEBATION - noun - fro VEGETARIAN (a person who does not eat meat) + LIBATION (the act of drinking; the drinking of a liquid offering as a religious ritual)
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COMMENTS:
Excellent ento! At least she's not reduced to mastication. - metrohumanx, 2008-08-13: 03:36:00
Eggcellent - Mustang, 2008-08-13: 08:23:00
great combo - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-13: 10:27:00
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Oddballimia
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: od bal EE mee ah
Sentence: Candy can't understand why she can't lose weight. She scrupulously avoids starches after 5:00 pm ("it turns right to fat"). She always carefully counts her daily calories. She eats lots of celery ("it takes more calories to digest it than it has in it, so that's negative calories"). She also eats a lot of spicy foods too ("that revs your metabolism and burns more calories"). Of course, drinks don't really count because they are mostly water; the same goes for soup. And everyone knows that the bites you take while you're cooking, to "taste test" the food, don't count. She does eat whatever is left on her kids' plates, but those calories don't count either because she eats standing up.
Etymology: oddball + bulimia
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)
Ritualemia
Created by: texmom
Pronunciation: writ tyou ul e mia
Sentence: When in full ritualemia, she ate only the pimentos from the olives.
Etymology: ritual - rite emia - disorder
Insuffergest
Created by: weyrlady
Pronunciation: in-suffer-gest
Sentence: I hate having to insuffergest.
Etymology: insufficient + insufferable + suffer +ingest
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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Abnibble
Created by: sanssouci
Pronunciation: Ab Nib Ball
Sentence: It is really difficult to live with Kate, especially her abnibble attitude to food and diet, she scrutinises every single thing I attempt to eat.
Etymology: Abnormal + Nibble = Abnibble Abnormal, not the usual, extremely or excessively large. Nibble, to take a small bite, to eat or chew small amounts.
Bingenibbler
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: bin-ge-nib-eler
Sentence: When the doctor told Monica that she was obese and advised her to lose weight, she went home and devised, what she thought, was a foolproof plan. She decided to use the bingenibbler method which involved taking very small bites of food while still consuming exactly the same amount as before.
Etymology: Binge(excessive eating) + Nibble(to take small bites, gently bite at) = Bingenibbler
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COMMENTS:
wouldn't that be nice if it worked? - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-13: 10:34:00
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Gastrowonky
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ga-stro-wong-kee
Sentence: Jill's diet has gone completely gastrowonky. She's decided to only eat things that start with the letter "G". Most of her friends pass on offers to join her for a breakfast of grapefruit with grated cheese. They run the other way when she mentions garlic granola.
Etymology: gastronomic (the art or science of good eating) + wonky (askew)
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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