Verboticisms

Created by: lumina

Pronunciation: sni/bler

Sentence: In an attempt to lose 15 pounds in one week, the week before her wedding of course, Jan joined her sister's online weight loss support group and was now an official snibbler. Snibblers believe that as long as you snack and nibble from the plates of those around you and NEVER make a plate for yourself, the embarrassment alone will be a great motivator, as well as the many times your hand will be slapped away.

Etymology: Snack Nibble

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COMMENTS:

How can I join? - readerwriter, 2008-08-13: 18:01:00

It's like when you eat alone in the dark...no one sees so it does not count! - Nosila, 2008-08-14: 00:34:00

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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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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: safe-pex

Sentence: After failing on both the Fatkins Diet and SlimFat, Louise tried practicing Safepecks, slowly nibbling on small bits of food. Unfortunately, for her, it only meant that it took her two hours to finish off the entire pizza.

Etymology: safe sex, peck

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COMMENTS:

It's important to use condiments. - Clayton, 2007-06-20: 05:56:00

especially if you're a dominoatrix - galwaywegian, 2007-06-20: 06:41:00

You guys are hot and cheesy today! - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-20: 06:49:00

Saucy, even. - Clayton, 2007-06-20: 07:08:00

Pizza with condiments - sounds like sheaths on toast. The Welsh like a rarebit, and salesmen like to celibate. - petaj, 2007-06-20: 08:24:00

Louise was a Pizza Slut. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-20: 08:54:00

A crusty, hand-tossed Pizza Slut. - Clayton, 2007-06-20: 17:23:00

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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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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: GORJ-eh-mone-ey

Sentence: Clarissa is a gorgemony devotee who engages in a ritualistic 'dining' wherein she endlessly and vigorously eats huge amounts of granola bars, a variety of nuts and dried fruits and other organic foods that she believes will insure her lasting health and vitality.

Etymology: Blend of the words 'gorge' (v. to stuff with food (usually used reflexively or passively) and 'ceremony' (n. any formal act or observance, especially a meaningless one)

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Created by: hyperborean

Pronunciation: TRED meel ing

Sentence: Harold hadn't lost any weight treadmealing because as his mileage increased so did the elaborateness of his buffets.

Etymology: sounds like treadmill: the exercise machine. tread (to walk) + meal (portion of food taken at one time)

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Created by: wallac44

Pronunciation: fuh-dieting

Sentence: My mother's weight keeps yo-yoing because of all of the fadieting she does.

Etymology: Fad and diet.

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Created by: hooterbug

Pronunciation: ˈgȯrj-rē

Sentence: Alice was a master of Gorgery. She figured 5 licks off of a Chicago Deep Dish Pizza slice would equate to only 3 hours on the Stairmaster tonight. Well, 2 if you dont swallow the flavorful spit.

Etymology: Blend of "Gorge" An instance of gluttonous eating + "Forgery" to make or imitate falsely with intent to defraud

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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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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: gore-mand-go

Sentence: Some people thought Lenny was totally aliMENTAL, but he was a dedicated practitioner of gourmandgo. This diet regime required him to eat copious amounts of mangoes all the while fidgetlicking to burn up calories.

Etymology: go man go (encouraging cry for those exercising) + gourmandise (make a pig of oneself) + mango (yum, plus full of antioxidants)

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COMMENTS:

Don't blame me... I voted for Gourmand. - Clayton, 2007-06-20: 05:59:00

Appearantly, he had no grape desire to change his currant eating habits. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-20: 09:46:00

No, he was persimmonently sticking to the regime, although the side effects of all that fibre were difficult to pear. He kept appleying himself to the diet the same way he plummed the depths in his study of Mandarin and was still olive long after his grandchildren started dating. They apricioted his efforts and did not ban a nana from joining him, although he was figgin ginormous after a couple of years. - petaj, 2007-06-20: 22:53:00

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