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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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Biziet
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: biz-eye-it
Sentence: She just couldn't understand why she couldn't lose those last 2 pounds no matter what biziet she adopted.
Etymology: bizarre (very strange or unusual, esp. so as to cause interest or amusement) + diet (a special course of food to which one restricts oneself, either to lose weight or for medical reasons)
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COMMENTS:
Very compact! Like it! - metrohumanx, 2008-08-13: 19:56:00
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Tonguetried
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: tung tryde
Sentence: When Tilly was on one of her famous diets, she would only lick her food, not bite or chew it. She told her friends it helped her lose weight when she tonguetried her meals in this manner.
Etymology: Tongue (a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity) & Tried (attempted,tested) & WordPlay on Tongue-tied (unable to speak from shyness embarassment or surprise)
Manicmange
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: man-ik-monj
Sentence: Jenny Craig insists that manicmange is healthy for their overweight clients.
Etymology: manic (frenzy) + mange (to eat en francais)
Munchrite
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: munch - ryt
Sentence: Marissa was very much involved in munchrite; a ceremonial 'dining' wherein she would endlessly and devotedly chomp on granola bars, a variety of nuts and dried fruits and other organic foods that she believed would insure her lasting health and vitality.
Etymology: Blend of 'munch' (to snack esp. extensively or frequently) and 'rite' (a formal or ceremonial act or procedure prescribed or customary in religious or other solemn use)
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COMMENTS:
right on the mark - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-13: 10:31:00
And don't forget the entrail mix. - metrohumanx, 2008-08-13: 19:57:00
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Gourmandgo
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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Grazecraze
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: graze/craze
Sentence: The latest diet endorsed by leading experts is the grazecraze which involves eating small amounts of food all day whenever one feels the urge - usually by nibbling bits of everyone elses snacks. The guy in the cartoon has been on the diet for a month and is pissed off that the girl is licking his next snack.
Etymology: graze (forage) + craze
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COMMENTS:
Good word - TJayzz, 2008-08-13: 15:21:00
Simple and effective - OZZIEBOB, 2008-08-13: 18:23:00
Zippy word, J-wock! - metrohumanx, 2008-08-13: 19:45:00
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Gastrowonky
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ga-stro-wong-kee
Sentence: Jill's diet has gone completely gastrowonky. She's decided to only eat things that start with the letter "G". Most of her friends pass on offers to join her for a breakfast of grapefruit with grated cheese. They run the other way when she mentions garlic granola.
Etymology: gastronomic (the art or science of good eating) + wonky (askew)
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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Lickosuction
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: lik o suk shun
Sentence: Her Catholic upbringing had programmed her to believe that acts were only sinful when you took pleasure in them, so she applied the same logic to eating, figuring that you wouldn't get fat if you didn't enjoy the food. Her lickosuction technique unfortunately had the opposite effect, as it didn't involve chewing, which was the only calorie burning part of the process.
Etymology: liposuction, lick, suction
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COMMENTS:
Obviously, she was a Cathaholick. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-20: 09:11:00
it made eating salad difficult because she was a romaine catholick - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-20: 09:31:00
Life would have been easier if she were Chewish. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-20: 09:40:00
foodha would say that the existance of her cheeseburger would be moo. - jadenguy, 2007-06-20: 10:07:00
and Gibran would say 'Beauty is eternity grazing at itself in a mirror' - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-20: 11:05:00
And the love of honey is the pursuit of all weevils. - petaj, 2007-06-20: 23:08:00
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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
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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