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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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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
Smellyfatronic
Created by: dancerxoxox
Pronunciation: smelly/fat/ron/ic
Sentence: his body was in smellyfatronic mode.
Etymology: smelly - fat - ironic
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'
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
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.
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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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)
Streo
Created by: missmurder
Pronunciation: stree-oh
Sentence: The man was surprised when he found out he had streo.
Etymology: strong+body oder
Sweatstrong
Created by: riomarde
Pronunciation: sweat/strong
Sentence: I badly need a shower after that sweatstrong workout.
Etymology: strong + sweat
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
