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DEFINITION: To leave food on your plate, not for the starving children in the world, but so you don't get fat.
Verboticisms
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Foodthrift
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈfudˌθɹɪft/
Sentence: The sign at the buffet read: "Don't be a foodthrift. Eat all you want, but please, take only what you can eat."
Etymology: Like a spendthrift, but with food.
Anopitia
Created by: ohwtepph
Pronunciation: ah-noh-pih-tzha
Sentence: Anopitia manifests itself in the form of half-eaten dishes on black plates. Anopitia does not include, however, your mom's casserole.
Etymology: anorexia + no[t] pity
Waistnot
Created by: Clayton
Pronunciation: WEYST-not
Sentence: Julie's tendency to waistnot has been complicated in recent years by her insistence that, at a mere 300 lbs., she's fit as a griddlecake.
Etymology: waist + waste not (want not)
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COMMENTS:
she must have a lovely waist (not) - galwaywegian, 2007-07-03: 05:37:00
It was expansive, going out in all directions, but chiefly the east and the waist. - Clayton, 2007-07-03: 07:48:00
if it was that expansive she could have tied it in a waistknot - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-03: 09:31:00
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Sustentashun
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: sus/ten/tay/shun
Sentence: She maintained her skeletal looks by practicing strict sustentashun
Etymology: sustentation + shun
Abdiceat
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: ab + dik + eat
Sentence: I'm just stuffed, I'm going to have to abdiceat.
Etymology: abdicate, with a twist. (What a twist!)
Declean
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: de-clean
Sentence: Dicky decleaned duck to retain a decent figure. He also declined to clean his dish.
Etymology: decline (say no) + lean (no fat) and de (not) + clean (no food on plate)
Stupidexia
Created by: gonzo
Pronunciation: stupi-dexia
Sentence: poor girl! she suffers from stupidexia.
Etymology: stupid anorexia
