Verboticism: Waistnot

DEFINITION: To leave food on your plate, not for the starving children in the world, but so you don't get fat.
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Anopitia
Created by: ohwtepph
Pronunciation: ah-noh-pih-tzha
Sentence: Anopitia manifests itself in the form of half-eaten dishes on black plates. Anopitia does not include, however, your mom's casserole.
Etymology: anorexia + no[t] pity
Foodthrift
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈfudˌθɹɪft/
Sentence: The sign at the buffet read: "Don't be a foodthrift. Eat all you want, but please, take only what you can eat."
Etymology: Like a spendthrift, but with food.
Heftovers
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: heft-o-vurz
Sentence: The food was flabulous, but because she was trying to lose weight, there were plenty of heftovers.
Etymology: heft, leftovers
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COMMENTS:
funny - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-03: 09:37:00
Did she take the heftovers home in a heftybag? - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-03: 11:39:00
At the beheft of restaurant management, she carted it home in a taxiflab. - Clayton, 2007-07-03: 17:15:00
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Waistnot
Created by: Clayton
Pronunciation: WEYST-not
Sentence: Julie's tendency to waistnot has been complicated in recent years by her insistence that, at a mere 300 lbs., she's fit as a griddlecake.
Etymology: waist + waste not (want not)
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COMMENTS:
she must have a lovely waist (not) - galwaywegian, 2007-07-03: 05:37:00
It was expansive, going out in all directions, but chiefly the east and the waist. - Clayton, 2007-07-03: 07:48:00
if it was that expansive she could have tied it in a waistknot - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-03: 09:31:00
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Declean
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: de-clean
Sentence: Dicky decleaned duck to retain a decent figure. He also declined to clean his dish.
Etymology: decline (say no) + lean (no fat) and de (not) + clean (no food on plate)
Calorieism
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: kal-or-ee-is-um
Sentence: Sure Bev was a calorieist, but at least she wasn't a racist like her fat friend Nora.
Etymology: calorie (food) + ism (as in hatred or intolerance for)
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COMMENTS:
it sounds like a new religion.... i like it - gonzo, 2007-07-03: 14:37:00
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Clandesdine
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: clan-dess-dine
Sentence: she liked to lose weight in a clandesdine way
Etymology: clandestine, dine
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COMMENTS:
how unromantic! as bad as a candlelessdine. - galwaywegian, 2007-07-04: 05:03:00
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Fatkins
Created by: ziggy41
Pronunciation: Fat-kens
Sentence: Look at that, all she ate was her for Thanksgiving was that slice of butter! I didn't know she went on Fatkins, did you?
Etymology: Fat (overweight) + atkins (a popular diet prescribed for weightloss) [this makes an oxymoron I suppose]
Discislim
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: dis/ci/slim
Sentence: In order not to get fat, she had to work to discislim her outlook on food, especially desserts.
Etymology: discipline + slim
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COMMENTS:
haha...love it - remistram, 2007-07-03: 15:09:00
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