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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".
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Rationormity
Created by: administraitor
Pronunciation: ra-shon-or-mi-ti
Sentence: Gilda justified her eating habits thus: "If one grapefruit is good for you, two must be gooder!" However, the application of this rationormity to all food groups led her to become a food groupie of huge (pro)portions!
Etymology: ration + rationalize + enormity
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COMMENTS:
Just as well Gilda was not the treasurer. Her rationomics would have sent them broke. - petaj, 2007-06-20: 22:37:00
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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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Wriffleat
Created by: wisedude321
Pronunciation: Riffle-eet
Sentence: To avoid gaining wait many people Wriffleat
Etymology: Created by Wisedude321 on June 20, 2007
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!
Mastorexia
Created by: serendipity9000
Pronunciation: mast-or-ex-eya
Sentence: When her friends realized that she always chewed all her food 500 times a bite - they sat her down and tried to get her to acknowledge her severe case of mastorexia.
Etymology: MAST from masticate (to chew) + OREXIA from anorexia nervosa (the eating disorder)
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.
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)
Microgorging
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: my-crow-gore-jing
Sentence: Her sad demise was attributed to MICROGORGING and other questionable habits.
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
Strongbad RULES ! - metrohumanx, 2007-06-20: 08:43:00
Well, no wonder. If she could just wait til the bell rang and remove her meal instead of just shoving the whole oven down her throat, she would have lived to a macro age. - petaj, 2007-06-20: 23:22:00
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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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COMMENTS:
That pepperoni was a little gamey... - metrohumanx, 2008-08-13: 03:28:00
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Chompeculiarity
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: chomp + peculiarity
Sentence: He's got some chompeculiarities, for instance, he squishes his bread flat before eating it.
Etymology: chomp + peculiarity
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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