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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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Jockeychew
Created by: scrabbelicious
Pronunciation: Jaw/key/ch/uh
Sentence: As Dan cuddingly jockeychewed his way through the McD menu he masticated over a day when bacon would be served as a condiment and elasticated waistbands were a retro fashion accessory.
Etymology: Jockeychew v. Spicey mix of 1. Jockey n. (Usually weight conscious) person who rides on the back of an animal. 2. Chew v. to masticate.
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COMMENTS:
Do you want a PhD with that? - scrabbelicious, 2008-08-13: 12:41:00
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Conflume
Created by: ryanpetie
Pronunciation: kon-floom
Sentence: Diana was conflicted: she wanted to eat the battered Twinkie so much, but the wedding dress wasn't going to magically alter itself. So she conflumed the Twinkie and felt much better about life.
Etymology: conflict-consumed
Wriffleat
Created by: wisedude321
Pronunciation: Riffle-eet
Sentence: To avoid gaining wait many people Wriffleat
Etymology: Created by Wisedude321 on June 20, 2007
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.
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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Glutsploit
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /glʌtsplɔɪt/
Sentence: He spent much effort tyring to glutsploit his diets and fitnesse his exercise schemes, searching for a lazy way to lose weight. He did succeed in losing weight, but in the end, his complicated methods involved more work than he would have spent on calorie-counting and daily exercise. Some think that his weight loss was due more to the extreme stress caused by his methods than it was to the methods themselves.
Etymology: From glut + exploit
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COMMENTS:
Wow - no wonder it took you so long to get that sentence out - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-20: 12:36:00
That actually only took a few minutes. I just had to go teach my classes for the day beforehand, and I wanted to get a word out first in hopes of gleaning some morning votes. - ErWenn, 2007-06-20: 18:01:00
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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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Eatiosyndiet
Created by: diplogreeable
Pronunciation: eet-ee-o-sin-dy-et
Sentence: Kelly was clearly experiencing a case of eatiosyndiet as she ritualistically averted the cheese in her omelette in order to eat a low fat meal.
Etymology: Eat + idiosyncrasy + diet
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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Healteat
Created by: cococo
Pronunciation: heal - teet
Sentence: I'm healteating very often because I want to lose weight.
Etymology: health + eat
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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