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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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Bettyswollocks
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: bettys wall ocks
Sentence: Dave new that damp feeling. It was bettyswollocks. He needed a shower.
Etymology: from an old playground play on words that was sweaty bollocks.
Scentillate
Created by: mugglesport
Pronunciation: sin-till-ate
Sentence: I haven't been to the gym in 2 months. I'm going to really scentillate after I work out today.
Etymology: From the words "scent" and "scintillate" which means to "sparkle, shine, or glisten"...because of sweat, perhaps.
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COMMENTS:
- mugglesport, 2007-01-09: 16:56:00
who were you at the other place again? - IanArcher, 2007-01-09: 17:04:00
Same name - mugglesport, 2007-01-09: 17:10:00
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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:
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)
Rejuvirank
Created by: StephLeeY
Pronunciation: rejoo-veh-rank
Sentence: It had been so long since he last exercised, he was entirely rejuviranked 15 minutes into his workout.
Etymology: rejuvinate, rank as in rancid
Atrophiglandulosis
Created by: artistformerlyknownasriffdaddy
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Having recently recommitted himself to going to the gym, mesabooger suffered from a severe case of atrophiglandulosis.
Etymology:
Perspiramplification
Created by: ahwinters
Pronunciation: purse-per-ahmp-lih-fih-ca-shun
Sentence: His perspiramplification prevented him from going full out to get "ripped."
Etymology: Perspire + Amplification
Gymicide
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: jiməsīd
Sentence: As Joyce approached the club she wondered why there was such a mass exodus. She soon found out that Ralph had returned after a year\\\'s absence. He had convinced himself that he no longer needed the prescription deodorant his doctor given him and that the best way to get his pauncheesy body back into shape was to enroll in the zazzercise class. In doing so he almost committed gymicide.
Etymology: gym (a gymnasium) + homicide (murder)
Misconceperspiration
Created by: ravivalon
Pronunciation: mis-concept-per-spiration
Sentence: The warm good feeling of making the right choice by taking the “extreme body workout class” was fading quickly. Lara knew she can’t leave the room just 5 minutes after the class started. Obviously she had a misconceperspiration of what her body was capable of.
Etymology: misconception + perspiration.
Exerstinktion
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: ex-a-stink-shun
Sentence: Garry realised why he'd stopped exercising all those years ago when he went back to the gym. He felt exerstinked, feeling exhausted and smelling like someone had died.
Etymology: exertion + stink + extinct
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.