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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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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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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.
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
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)
Smellyfatronic
Created by: dancerxoxox
Pronunciation: smelly/fat/ron/ic
Sentence: his body was in smellyfatronic mode.
Etymology: smelly - fat - ironic
Exerstenchal
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: ex-err-stench-ul
Sentence: after the session at the gym proved exerstenchal, he wondered if there was any meaning left in working out
Etymology: exercise, stench, existential
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COMMENTS:
Then he camuserated with his friends and said he had to sartre out his nietzsche for exerstenchal workouts. They advised him to never let his kierkegaard down. - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-26: 14:14:00
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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'
Sweatstrong
Created by: riomarde
Pronunciation: sweat/strong
Sentence: I badly need a shower after that sweatstrong workout.
Etymology: strong + sweat
Bobuilderdy
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: boh-bill-der-dee
Sentence: Stanley was glad that he stunk, he noticed that his bobuilderdy attracted attention from the ladies.
Etymology: b.o. (body odor)+ body + builder
