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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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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
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
Perspithetic
Created by: administraitor
Pronunciation: per-spee-thet-ic
Sentence: His eyes red and raw from having sand kicked into them, Howard finally returned to Joe’s Gym, only to find that his perspithetic efforts on the weight machine caused him more embarrassment than he’d felt on the beach!
Etymology: perspire + pathetic
Smellyfatronic
Created by: dancerxoxox
Pronunciation: smelly/fat/ron/ic
Sentence: his body was in smellyfatronic mode.
Etymology: smelly - fat - ironic
Experspise
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: EHKS-pur-spize
Sentence: Alex's girlfriend wouldn't hug him, because the results of his experspise were visually evident from ten feet away--and aromatically evident from twenty.
Etymology: excerise + perspire
Chilipower
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: chill-ee-pow-ur
Sentence: His peraspiration to get back in shape was strong, but his unsurpassed chilipower was chasing away all the other gym customers.
Etymology: chili (smells like sweat), power
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COMMENTS:
My word was inspired by my brother-in-law, Pete. We were standing in a long line of people at a gift shop. I was one person ahead of Pete, with that one person sandwiched between us being particularly wretched-smelling. It was hear-a-pin-drop quiet until Pete broke the silence by yelling out "Hey Leigh! You making chili up there?!". Yep, you can't choose your relatives. - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-26: 07:02:00
funny story -I like the word peraspiration too - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-26: 14:17:00
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Stairschlepper
Created by: kabloozie
Pronunciation: stare-shlep-per
Sentence: Workout? After a week of watching reruns and eating snickerdoodles I can barely manage a stairschlepper.
Etymology: stairstepper + schlepp (a yiddish word meaning 'to drag'
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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Streo
Created by: missmurder
Pronunciation: stree-oh
Sentence: The man was surprised when he found out he had streo.
Etymology: strong+body oder
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 ;)
