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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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Buffake
Created by: sweetking
Pronunciation: buh-feyk
Sentence: It was maddening to watch her fill an entire plate with desserts and then proceed to eat only the chocolate bits of each item. If she would just eat one full dessert it would have less calories than trying to buffake her way around the meal.
Etymology: combining buffet and fake
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COMMENTS:
let them eat buffake. - scrabbelicious, 2008-08-14: 11:02:00
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Healteat
Created by: cococo
Pronunciation: heal - teet
Sentence: I'm healteating very often because I want to lose weight.
Etymology: health + eat
Treadmealing
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)
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
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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
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Celeremony
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: SEL-uh-ree-moh-nee
Sentence: Elena reverently placed the perfectly trimmed stalks into place - a perfect pentagram (5 grams), in preparation for her nightly celeremony.
Etymology: celery, ceremony
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COMMENTS:
did she get much of a celeriaction - galwaywegian, 2007-06-20: 06:38:00
Ahh, preparation for celery sacrificing. - petaj, 2007-06-20: 08:15:00
I bet her body was riddled with celleryulite - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-20: 08:43:00
Not only did she have celleryulite, but her carroted artery was clogged. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-20: 08:59:00
The sacred celeremony is necessary to achieve vegemony. - Alchemist, 2007-06-20: 14:38:00
And after that is there a celerybration? - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-20: 15:30:00
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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
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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
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Safepecks
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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Abnibble
Created by: sanssouci
Pronunciation: Ab Nib Ball
Sentence: It is really difficult to live with Kate, especially her abnibble attitude to food and diet, she scrutinises every single thing I attempt to eat.
Etymology: Abnormal + Nibble = Abnibble Abnormal, not the usual, extremely or excessively large. Nibble, to take a small bite, to eat or chew small amounts.
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)
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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