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'Why are you licking your pizza?'

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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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)

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Microgorging

metrohumanx

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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metrohumanx Strongbad RULES ! - metrohumanx, 2007-06-20: 08:43:00

petaj 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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Unoshnique

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: yoo-NOSH-neek

Sentence: Although Bob often chewed his food 82 times before swallowing, and even suggested that humans could survive on air and water alone, his most wacky unoshnique was the claim that any food and, in particular, pizza and ice-cream eaten between meals, didn't contribute to weight gain.

Etymology: Blend of UNIQUE & NOSH: food; nibble; snacking between meal & TECHNIQUE

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COMMENTS:

great word - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-13: 10:32:00

U R Unique! - Nosila, 2008-08-14: 00:31:00

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Unoreclexia

ohwtepph

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]

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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

petaj 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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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:

petaj 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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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:

metrohumanx That pepperoni was a little gamey... - metrohumanx, 2008-08-13: 03:28:00

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Snibbler

Created by: lumina

Pronunciation: sni/bler

Sentence: In an attempt to lose 15 pounds in one week, the week before her wedding of course, Jan joined her sister's online weight loss support group and was now an official snibbler. Snibblers believe that as long as you snack and nibble from the plates of those around you and NEVER make a plate for yourself, the embarrassment alone will be a great motivator, as well as the many times your hand will be slapped away.

Etymology: Snack Nibble

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COMMENTS:

How can I join? - readerwriter, 2008-08-13: 18:01:00

It's like when you eat alone in the dark...no one sees so it does not count! - Nosila, 2008-08-14: 00:34:00

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Gourmandgo

petaj

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

petaj 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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Treadmealing

hyperborean

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)

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-06-20: 01:30:00
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

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-06-20: 04:41:00
This summer it's Double Verbotomy with Verbotomy Text and Verbotomy Classic. Get the details: Double Verbotomy for the Summer Season.