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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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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
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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COMMENTS:
Maybe she's not getting enough lietary supplicants. - Clayton, 2007-06-20: 03:44:00
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
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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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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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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Gluttiquette
Created by: airliebee
Pronunciation: gluh-tee-kett
Sentence: Michelle ate each pea, each grain of rice and each lentil individually, with chopsticks, observing carefully the gluttocol of her gluttiquette. Afterwards, she rewarded herself for her excellent adherence with a big bowl of choc-chip caramel swirl extra-sugar superfudge ice-cream, eaten with a fork whilst standing up so that the calories were cancelled out. See also: Gluttocol, the rules of gluttiquette.
Etymology: gluttony + etiquette. (gluttocol = gluttony + protocol)
Wriffleat
Created by: wisedude321
Pronunciation: Riffle-eet
Sentence: To avoid gaining wait many people Wriffleat
Etymology: Created by Wisedude321 on June 20, 2007
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
Poshnosh
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: posh/nosh
Sentence: She would only eat food worthy of her position. Her poshnosh habit unforunately only involved rich food
Etymology: posh nosh
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COMMENTS:
Sounds like her tastes were Victorian. Hmm is that the dinner bell Beckhaming? - petaj, 2007-06-20: 23:23:00
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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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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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