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DEFINITION: v. To return to the gym after a long layoff to discover that your muscles may be weak, but that your sweat is still strong. n. A person whose sweat is stronger than their muscles.
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Stalefrail
Created by: BrakX
Pronunciation: stale frail
Sentence: hitting the gym hard after a year break left him with only stalefrail
Etymology:
Ouchdorphins
Created by: evhershey
Pronunciation: ouch-dor-fins
Sentence: After the holidays I had a workout that flooded my system ouchdorphines
Etymology: ouch + (en)dorphines
Atrostank
Created by: themeanreds
Pronunciation: a-tro-st-ank
Sentence: My, do I feel weak; were it not for my awe-inspiring astrostranking, I might not even know I worked out.
Etymology: Atrophy + Stankosity = Atrostank
Peeuwspirater
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: pee oo spir ay ter
Sentence: When Omar went to the gym, he never had to worry about being crowded out by other fitness buffs. He was such a strong peeuwspirater that people soon left him to his own personal force field to repel nearness to his exertions.
Etymology: Pee-ew (exclamation for a stinky smell) & Perspiration (sweat)
Perspirastrong
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: purs per ay strong
Sentence: When Harry retured to the gym, he attacked the equipment with gusto. He figured if he worked out vigorously, he could shed weight twice as fast. The only thing Harry managed to do was sweat twice as much. In fact he was a perspirastrong...of perspihurculean proportions. Sadly, they just don't make deodorants that strong...
Etymology: Perspiration (salty fluid secreted by sweat glands) & Strong(having strength or power greater than average or expected)
Hurtspiration
Created by: sodium
Pronunciation: hurt-speur-ray-shun
Sentence: Phoebe's sore muscles reminded her that for a few more weeks, her New Year's resolution was going to consist of a lot of hurtspiration.
Etymology: Hurt + perspiration
Dejaphew
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: day-zha-FEW
Sentence: Jim could blow the dust off his track suit and rub the mold off his Nikes, but he couldn't shake the odor of dejaphew.
Etymology: deja vu + phew
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COMMENTS:
Very good! - wordmeister, 2007-01-09: 19:00:00
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Retrofunk
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: REH-trow-funk
Sentence: After only 2 minutes on the heavy bag, Bobby was redolent with that old magic retrofunk. Cool!
Etymology: Retro + funk
Comments:
Javeson1 - 2007-01-09: 00:37:00
Hey! No words up! I guess that means mine is first? (except it's not up either...)
Hey Javeson1, You word is first! And it is showing up now. It's also very good. The people in the New Years resolution crowd do have a special aroma about them -- especially after several months of Infermention. ~ James
allwise - 2007-01-10: 02:12:00
yeah, infermention was a good one.