Vote for the best verboticism.
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
Click on each verboticism to read the sentences created by the Verbotomy writers, and to see your voting options...
You have two votes. Click on the words to read the details, then vote your favorite.
Fadieting
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.
Grazecraze
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: grayze/crayze
Sentence: The latest diet endorsed by leading experts was the grazecraze which involved eating small amounts of food all day whenever one felt the urge - usually by nibbling bits of everyone elses snacks. The guy in the comic has been on the diet for a month and is pissed off that the girl is licking his next snack.
Etymology: graze (forage) + craze
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
Grazey, man, grazey. - Clayton, 2007-06-20: 07:12:00
I've been ruminating on this. Bet I cud lose weight this way. Anybody got a Moo Pie? - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-20: 08:43:00
you guys aren't going to milk this are you? - rikboyee, 2007-06-20: 09:00:00
Not me - I lactose kind of comments. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-20: 09:09:00
you udder yet another pun! - jadenguy, 2007-06-20: 09:17:00
I'm gonna bovine another thing to do on the internet. i swear. - jadenguy, 2007-06-20: 09:18:00
Fine! Beef that way! - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-20: 09:20:00
goodness grazeious - great bulls of fire - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-20: 09:24:00
Bullocks! Another freakin' song! - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-20: 09:38:00
cattle be stuck in your head for the rest of the day! - jadenguy, 2007-06-20: 09:50:00
Yep, til the cows come home. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-20: 10:15:00
I got temporarily logged off - cow'd that happen? - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-20: 10:41:00
Dangus thing I ever herd of! - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-20: 10:56:00
Maybe it just happens heifery so often? - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-20: 11:03:00
you guys are just so clheifer. I calf never laughed so herd - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-20: 11:32:00
I like this brand of humor, it eases my moosery. - Alchemist, 2007-06-20: 14:44:00
well moosery does love cowpany - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-20: 15:25:00
Hey! All this cow talk just reminded me that I need to send for the tickets to the annual Cow Flop. Thanks! - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-20: 15:53:00
I calfn't had so much pun in ages - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-20: 16:40:00
I believe the word is "Cowabunga!" - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-20: 17:12:00
can you stop punning??....i bet your not cowpabull...go on...i dairy you - rikboyee, 2007-06-20: 18:12:00
Never! I won't cow-tow to the likes of you! (I mean that in a nice way.) - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-20: 18:26:00
I bet 5 bucks that we cowd goat on forheifer. But maybe it's time to steer the topic away. Can you ranch yourself away from cattle? No more sheep laughs at the cow's expense. - petaj, 2007-06-20: 23:19:00
----------------------------
Ritestuffing
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: ryte stuf fing
Sentence: Ava Dupois had developed a system called ritestuffing to try and watch her calories. If she ordered a big juicy hamburger with all the trimmings, she would be sure to order a diet soda with which to wash it down. Her logic being that the no calories in the soda would counteract the many calories of the burger. In her mind, you could undo all the harm that your favourite fatty foods might do simply by counterbalancing with non-caloric foods. By the same ritestuffing philosophy, she'd eat apple pie with low-cal frozen yogurt on top;mix rum with diet Coke; wash down chocolate cake with skim milk and eat French fries with diet ketchup. She dreamed she could market her philosophy and become the next big diet guru to make a fortune. Move over Jenny Craig and WeightWatchers! Although mentally she felt skinnier using ritestuffing, for some reason, she was having problems fitting into her clothes. This of course she put down to the theory of the dreaded shrinkhangers that lurked in her closet.
Etymology: Rite (ritual,of or relating to or characteristic of religious rituals; any customary observance or practice)& Stuffing (overeating or eating immodestly; make a pig of oneself; fillng completely)& The Right Stuff (You've got what it takes, and then some!)
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
Goddess of glee! Pasha of puns!
Ava Dupois, INDEED! - metrohumanx, 2008-08-13: 03:33:00
Very nice - OZZIEBOB, 2008-08-13: 18:23:00
----------------------------
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
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!
Unoreclexia
Created by: ohwtepph
Pronunciation: uhn - noh - reh - klehk - sha
Sentence: Dianne's unoreclexic behavior has led a lot of unoreclexia believers and a lot of doctors to question her reasons for her peculiar diet. She'd rather drink a soda through the nose or die. Upon hearing this, one particular doctor-- Dr. Pepper-- went mad.
Etymology: un [opposite of] + anorexia [loss of appetite and inability to eat] + eclectic [choosy; discriminating]
Eggcentric
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: egsentrik
Sentence: Walt has tried every diet he can find in an effort control his weight. He\'s tried the grapefruit diet, the caveman diet and the raw food diet. His latest is the eggcentric diet. It is touted as a **rebirth** experience. Any food or drink is allowed as long as it involves eggs. Steak & eggs; fine. Eggnog; sure. Coffee; not so good.
Etymology: egg (an oval or round object laid by a female bird, reptile, fish, or invertebrate, usually containing a developing embryo) + eccentric (unconventional and slightly strange person or their behavior)
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
eggselent word - galwaywegian, 2010-01-14: 07:48:00
----------------------------
Dividiophagiatric
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
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
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
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
----------------------------
Nibblesandbits
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: nib-bles-and-bits
Sentence: Jill's dieting strategy consisted of nibbles-and-bits. Then for desert, a tasty milkbone.
Etymology: kibbles and bits/nibble
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
This summer it's Double Verbotomy with Verbotomy Text and Verbotomy Classic. Get the details: Double Verbotomy for the Summer Season.