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'Why are you licking your pizza?'

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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Liet

Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: lie-et

Sentence: she only ate fruit flavoured ice cream because she was on a very strict liet

Etymology: lie, diet

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Maybe she's not getting enough lietary supplicants. - Clayton, 2007-06-20: 03:44:00

petaj Probably reading too many literary supplements from the Medical journals. - petaj, 2007-06-20: 03:58:00

too many books spoil the broth - rikboyee, 2007-06-20: 05:27:00

Too many books in the kitchen. - Clayton, 2007-06-20: 07:06:00

petaj Yet many hands make liet work. - petaj, 2007-06-20: 08:14:00

and in ice cream many calories liet in weight - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-20: 12:18:00

and in ice cream many calories liet in weight - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-20: 12:19:00

This may be the shortest verboticism ever...is it? - ErWenn, 2007-06-20: 12:22:00

Gets my vote. - Clayton, 2007-06-20: 21:33:00

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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

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Nutrabingo

Created by: readerwriter

Pronunciation: new-tra-bing-o; new-tra-binj

Sentence: Hamish didn't know Nutrabingo was the latest fad in dieting. It made eating a game. Yes, a game! The player, or eater, could play solitarily or with others. The game involved gathering bits of nutrition of as many colors as possible on a base of pizza crust and licking them off. Extra points were given for foods of secondary colors. Points were lost if any of the crust was eaten. Whoever got full first yelled "Nutrabingo!" And everyone laughed which is good for digestion. You could laugh, too, even if you were eating alone. It was a complicated and ever-evolving game, but very rewarding as the pizza base could be used over and over again. Even so, Cerise couldn't blame Hamish--she had just found out about Nutrabinging herself. She loved the game almost as much as she loved playing Verbotomy.

Etymology: nutrabingo: noun, from a combination of nutrition + the game of Bingo; nutrabinge: verb, from a combination of nutrition and binge

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metrohumanx That pepperoni was a little gamey... - metrohumanx, 2008-08-13: 03:28:00

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Dividiophagiatric

metrohumanx

Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: dih-VID-ee-oh-PHAGE-ee-AT-rick

Sentence: Oliver would be the first to admit he had a few caloric intake issues and a hardy appetite, but his pal Laurel had taken a quantum leap into the bizarre world of MICROINGESTION. She seemed to believe that smaller portions, taken more frequently but in greater quantity would enable her to reduce her vast waistband. Her tragically DIVIDIOPHAGIATRIC behavior extended to the belief that ingesting a hundred jello shots was less intoxicating than a small tumbler of Wolfschitt Vodka. Laurel's morning bowl of steam was usually followed by nine hundred Cheerios she had diligently laid out the night before. For dessert, she limited herself to one AEROGELATO and a fistful of mini-M&Ms...Fortunately, Ollie took her to the mental hospial, where she spends her days in the DIVIOPHAGIATRIC ward, counting Sen-Sens and swapping Mini-Chicklets with the patients. Laurel managed to lessen her gross tonnage, but it was probably the hospital food - NOT the pretzel stix that did it.

Etymology: DIVide+IDIO+PHAGE+iatric= DIVIDIOPHAGIATRIC___DIVIDE:to reduce into discrete yummy portions___ -IDIO:suffix, Greek, from idios — : one's own : personal : separate : distinct___PHAGE: Greek -phagos one that eats, from -phagos ___-IATRIC: of or relating to (such) medical treatment or healing

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COMMENTS:

metrohumanx You can't get there from here: http://www.us-highways.com/ - metrohumanx, 2008-08-13: 03:21:00

with such an excellent etymology this should be in a dictionary - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-13: 10:30:00

metrohumanx Thanks J-wok. Good ento, but the word lacks MOXIE....that certain appeal that makes for a snappy Verbotomy. - metrohumanx, 2008-08-13: 19:50:00

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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

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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:

mrskellyscl 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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Healteat

Created by: cococo

Pronunciation: heal - teet

Sentence: I'm healteating very often because I want to lose weight.

Etymology: health + eat

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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

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Pizzaslap

Created by: ajcor

Pronunciation: as it sounds

Sentence: What is bound to happen if one tries to eat another's person's PIZZA while indulging single mindly in a frolic of one's own!

Etymology: Pizza as in food of choice and Slap as in what happens as a direct result to the Pizza Top Licker. Particularly when the Crumb to yummy Pizza Top ratio has been studied empirically and found lacking!

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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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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-06-20: 01:30:00
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

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-06-20: 04:41:00
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