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DEFINITION: n. That sinking feeling you get when you realize that you will be shedding your winter coat, before you can possibly shed the extra layer of insulation (i.e. fat) that you gained over the winter. v. To worry about your weight.
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Frostflabitis
Created by: sunny
Pronunciation:
Sentence: As the first robin flew past her window, she stepped upon the scale and was struck by a bout of frostflabitis.
Etymology:
Snowrefrets
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: snōrēfret
Sentence: Gloria faces the upcoming Spring with snowrefrets. The fact that her resolution to go to the gym froze during the first snowfall and her diet since Thanksgiving has been much like a polar bear with an unlimited source of harp seals has left her dreading the work she will need to do if she was to avoid a summer of muumuus.
Etymology: snow (atmospheric water vapor frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer) + regrets (feel sad, repentant, or disappointed over something that has happened or been done, esp. a loss or missed opportunity) + fret (be constantly or visibly worried or anxious)
Winterbloat
Created by: paintergrl1313
Pronunciation: Winter-bloat
Sentence: My coats gone, but I still have to deal with the holiday winterbloat.
Etymology: Winter + bloat
Festivitransation
Created by: igho1207
Pronunciation: fes-tiv-it-ran-say-shun
Sentence: The process of festivitransation can be the worst part of early spring for some people.
Etymology: festive/trans(opposite)/ation(as in sensATION).
Fatulation
Created by: ekath
Pronunciation: fatch-you-lay-shun
Sentence: When someone has flatulation and fatulation too, i don't know which is worse: tolerating the stench or listening to then complain about being overweight.
Etymology: from fat + flatulation a literal "sinking feeling"
Lardistress
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: lar dih stress
Sentence: "Lardistress" means that sinking feeling you get when you realize you will be shedding your winter coat before you can possibly shed the fat you gained over the holidays.
Etymology: From the Old Norman "chubummer."
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COMMENTS:
wow! It means EXACTLY that! you got my vote for the sterling sentence~ - Alchemist, 2007-03-01: 00:26:00
It's ironic that all that lard would actually make one more buoyant literally, but not figuratively. Not to mention the negative effect on the figure. - petaj, 2007-03-01: 05:04:00
Thanks, Alchemist. It's the sort of thing one can only get away with once, though. :) - Osomatic, 2007-03-01: 14:26:00
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Springdumb
Created by: BMott
Pronunciation: spring-dumb
Sentence: She realized she had suffered a case of springdumb all winter as she munched on twinkies to keep the winter blues at bay, forgetting that spring bikinis would soon be in fashion.
Etymology: Spring: That lovely time of year when everything blooms, but your body isn't supposed to. -- Dumb: The ability to ignore the obvious.
Woewoewoeyourbloat
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: woh-woh-woh-yoor-bloht
Sentence: woewoewoeyourbloat 'nuff to make you scream verily verily verily verily we'll have no more ice cream
Etymology: Woe (an exclamation of grief, distress, or lamentation) + bloat (to become swollen; be puffed out or dilated) A play on (song) Row, row, row your boat
Expostfatto
Created by: Discoveria
Pronunciation: Ex-post-fat-toe
Sentence: Brenda was more blue than the blues, more down than the Downs, and more depressed than her mattress springs. She was experiencing the post-Christmas dieter's syndrome of expostfatto.
Etymology: From "ex post facto", a legal term referring to laws that change the legal status of events that happened before the law is enacted. (i.e. Hoping that the effect of overeating can be changed.)
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COMMENTS:
The mattress reference is hillarious!! - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-28: 06:42:00
Took me a while to think up...but I didn't want to get rid of the beginning of the sentence! - Discoveria, 2007-02-28: 07:49:00
Silly, but amusing. - ErWenn, 2007-02-28: 11:57:00
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Hibernationshock
Created by: cheetah
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Aunt Junipher experiences a depressing state of hibernationshock during the bikini sales each spring.
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
I like it! - ErWenn, 2007-02-28: 11:57:00
me too! - wordmeister, 2007-02-28: 13:01:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by purpleartichokes.
Thank you purpleartichokes! ~ James