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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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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)
Idiosyncrasticate
Created by: Clayton
Pronunciation: id-ee-uh-sing-KRAS-ti-keyt
Sentence: Timothy's obsessive idiosyncrastication bordered on the pigoutlandish.
Etymology: idiosyncrasy + masticate
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COMMENTS:
He sounds like a compulsive obnoxious when it comes to food. - petaj, 2007-06-20: 04:01:00
Timothy should get together with Galwaywegian's character - sort of a Jack Sprat scenario - they'd chew and lick the platter clean - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-20: 09:07:00
Timothy could masticate And Gal could lick and suck And so betwixt the two of them The lunch was out of luck - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-20: 11:29:00
Timothy could eat a cake, and Gal could lick the bowl. But neither did so modestly. They had no self-control. - Clayton, 2007-06-20: 17:19:00
Timothy could chew like mad, and Gal would snort it up.
Chomp, grind, smack, slurp, lick, sip, sup. - petaj, 2007-06-20: 23:29:00
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Liet
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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Idiobalimiritualing
Created by: grasshopper
Pronunciation: id/i/o/bal/im/ir/itual/ling
Sentence: Dr's have informed me that my idiobalimiritualing ways will not only cause me to gain weight but to lose out on many necessary vitamins.
Etymology: idio/idiosyncratic, balimi/balamia, ritual/ritual, ing/action = = idiobalimiritualing
Vegebation
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: veg/uh/bey/shun
Sentence: Vegebation is the peculiar ritual Jenny practises. She is a vegetarian who only drinks her food. She juicers all her vegetables and tofu together and drinks her meals. Vegebation is part of the 'X-Man' cultasy which proclaims that this activity will reduce the side effects of youthanesia and prevent wear and tear on teeth and reduce facial aging lines from chewing.
Etymology: VEGEBATION - noun - fro VEGETARIAN (a person who does not eat meat) + LIBATION (the act of drinking; the drinking of a liquid offering as a religious ritual)
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COMMENTS:
Excellent ento! At least she's not reduced to mastication. - metrohumanx, 2008-08-13: 03:36:00
Eggcellent - Mustang, 2008-08-13: 08:23:00
great combo - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-13: 10:27:00
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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!)
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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
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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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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]
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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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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