Verboticisms

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)

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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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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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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!

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Created by: airliebee

Pronunciation: gluh-tee-kett

Sentence: Michelle ate each pea, each grain of rice and each lentil individually, with chopsticks, observing carefully the gluttocol of her gluttiquette. Afterwards, she rewarded herself for her excellent adherence with a big bowl of choc-chip caramel swirl extra-sugar superfudge ice-cream, eaten with a fork whilst standing up so that the calories were cancelled out. See also: Gluttocol, the rules of gluttiquette.

Etymology: gluttony + etiquette. (gluttocol = gluttony + protocol)

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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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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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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /glʌtsplɔɪt/

Sentence: He spent much effort tyring to glutsploit his diets and fitnesse his exercise schemes, searching for a lazy way to lose weight. He did succeed in losing weight, but in the end, his complicated methods involved more work than he would have spent on calorie-counting and daily exercise. Some think that his weight loss was due more to the extreme stress caused by his methods than it was to the methods themselves.

Etymology: From glut + exploit

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COMMENTS:

Wow - no wonder it took you so long to get that sentence out - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-20: 12:36:00

That actually only took a few minutes. I just had to go teach my classes for the day beforehand, and I wanted to get a word out first in hopes of gleaning some morning votes. - ErWenn, 2007-06-20: 18:01:00

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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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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: lie-et

Sentence: she only ate fruit flavoured ice cream because she was on a very strict liet

Etymology: lie, diet

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COMMENTS:

Maybe she's not getting enough lietary supplicants. - Clayton, 2007-06-20: 03:44:00

Probably reading too many literary supplements from the Medical journals. - petaj, 2007-06-20: 03:58:00

too many books spoil the broth - rikboyee, 2007-06-20: 05:27:00

Too many books in the kitchen. - Clayton, 2007-06-20: 07:06:00

Yet many hands make liet work. - petaj, 2007-06-20: 08:14:00

and in ice cream many calories liet in weight - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-20: 12:18:00

and in ice cream many calories liet in weight - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-20: 12:19:00

This may be the shortest verboticism ever...is it? - ErWenn, 2007-06-20: 12:22:00

Gets my vote. - Clayton, 2007-06-20: 21:33:00

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