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DEFINITION: To return to the gym after a long layoff to discover that your muscles may be weak, but that your sweat is still strong.
Verboticisms
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Sweatstrong
Created by: riomarde
Pronunciation: sweat/strong
Sentence: I badly need a shower after that sweatstrong workout.
Etymology: strong + sweat
Taebeeo
Created by: KristinA
Pronunciation: tie-bee-oh
Sentence: The New Year's resolution to loose weight is, in reality, an exodus of couch potatoes to the gym for a month or two of taebeeohing.
Etymology: Tae Bo + B.O. (body odor)
Stenchpress
Created by: ChristopherAndersen
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COMMENTS:
A google search tells me rikboyee came up with this word before I did. But it's not on the list anymore. Verbotomy allowed me to enter it. Are we losing words? - ChristopherAndersen, 2007-08-01: 00:23:00
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Brawngrance
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: brawn/grance
Sentence: Butch was tired of all his friends giving him a hard time about his body odour after working out. They would joke about his foul-lifting, or punging-iron, or ask how his stenchercise, exereektion, stinkercise, expirercise or smellertion went that day, but he, being the wholesome all around hard working, iron pumping, profuse sweating positive person that he was, began referring to his manly odour as brawngrance, the smell of a champion.
Etymology: brawn + fragrance
Aeromacise
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: Air-oh-muh-size
Sentence: I tried to impress the ladies with my deltoid crunches, but only managed to aeromacise profusely until someone called the pest control company to check for rodents in the walls.
Etymology: Aerobics + aroma + exercise
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COMMENTS:
very funny - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-26: 14:22:00
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Streo
Created by: missmurder
Pronunciation: stree-oh
Sentence: The man was surprised when he found out he had streo.
Etymology: strong+body oder
Gymwhiff
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: Jim + wif
Sentence: He was a flabby dumb-bell who, after starting an early morning, get-fit program, never thought to shower his gymodorous self before swithering to the office. His gymwhiff was so strong that fellow workers avoided this gymnauseous sweat-trough like the plague.
Etymology: "Gym" of (gymnasium) + Whiff. Cognates: gymwhiffer, gymwhiffs, gymwhiffish, gymwhiffing.
Calistenchics
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: cal/i/stench/ics
Sentence: Wow - these calistenchics are producing such huge muscles and such a strong manly scent - I'll soon be the pitpong champion of the gym.
Etymology: calisthenics + stench
Machaintmo
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: mack-aint-mo
Sentence: With desperation in his eyes, Leo dragged one foot in front of the other on the slowly moving treadmill. That weights session had enervated him leaving the powerful yet tangy scent of body odour lingering in his nostrils. It was a growing realisation that he was machaintmo.
Etymology: machismo + aint
Extink
Created by: radiogirl
Pronunciation: eks'tINk
Sentence: It turned out I had to take a very long bath after my extinking session.
Etymology: EXercise STINK extinct (of muscles ;)
