Verboticism: Exbortion
DEFINITION: v. intr., To compensate for emotional rejection by trying to change one's appearance through aggressive dieting, exercise and/or plastic surgery -- common among aging divorcees.
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Metamorfailosis
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: metəmôrfāləsəs
Sentence: After his wife left, Bruce went on a gym spree. Fellow patrons knew him as big guy in the wet sweats. He expected a huge change. He experienced metamorfailosis. Caterpillar in. Caterpillar out.
Etymology: metamorphosis (a change of the form or nature of a thing or person into a completely different one) + Fail (be unsuccessful in achieving one’s goal)
Superfacial
Created by: hyperborean
Pronunciation: sue per FAY shuhl
Sentence: Her tears were beginning to carve channels, but instead of facing her pain, she made another appointment for a superfacial.
Etymology: Based on "superficial": of, affecting or being on the surface. (super: exceeding a norm) + (facial: a cosmetic treatment for the face)
Mendorphins
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: men dohrr finns
Sentence: She started to feel good about herself after the first 10k, the mendorphins kicked in as she saw the guys in the mirror checking out her tush
Etymology: endorphins, mend, men
Transfigurence
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: trans-FIG-yur-ence
Sentence: Following a messy divorce that included a great deal of harsh criticism about his 'sagging' appearance, Martin began a rigorous program of transfigurence, and finding a great deal of success with his efforts has become a real hunk and is in great demand in the dating game.
Etymology: Based on the word 'transfigure' (vt. transform outwardly and usually for the better)
Chompensate
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: chom/pen/sate
Sentence: To chompensate involves aggressively biting down on food to exercise the face muscles as you eat.
Etymology: compensate + chomp + sate
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COMMENTS:
They do that on the Chomps-Elysee in Paris...god word, bookowl! - Nosila, 2008-08-20: 23:34:00
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Bellyboiler
Created by: scrabbelicious
Pronunciation: /bel-ie-boil-er/
Sentence: Patrice wasn't used to being on his own and that's the way he liked it. Not wanting to leave it to chance, he lapsed into bellyboiler mode. Opening up his web browser in tabs, he began his search for belly loving blondes and sauna clubs in his swimming tog area.
Etymology: Bellyboiler, from belly + (bunny) boiler, an abdomenally obsessed person. Bellyboiling v. similar to belly-aching.
Rejectionperception
Created by: Rhyme79
Pronunciation: ree-jek-shun-per-cep-shun
Sentence: Man, your rejectionperception is really showing. You didn't have those pecs yesterday, and you were bald until the day before that. Man, get some therapy, or a woman, before there's nothing original of you left.
Etymology: Rejection, (refuse, dismiss.) Perception, (sensing, being conscious of or way of seeing things.)
Exbortion
Created by: frenchprof
Pronunciation: ex-bort exbortion
Sentence: He had his stomach exborted not too long ago. No more pregnant looking men.
Etymology: ex-boriri out of-appearance also dis-appeared
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Bodification
Created by: hooterbug
Pronunciation: bä-də-fə-ˈkā-shən
Sentence: Gary's bodification didnt quite turn out as he expected. He thought that his skinny chicken legs had been one of the reasons his Ex-wife Marge wasn't attracted to him so he went in for some calf-implants. Unfortunately for Gary, the nurse misread his chart and Gary ended up with breast implants or "moobs" (man boobs)
Etymology: Blend of Body + Modification
Sadapt
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sad apt
Sentence: After his wife of 20 years dumped him for the pool boy,Kevin decided to enjoy himself and adapt a swinging bachelor lifestyle. His after-work beer therapy sessions gave him a much larger girth than before and his attempts to sadapt to the hedonistic life,made his fsvourite song, "The girls get prettier at closing time..."
Etymology: Sad (bad; unfortunate) & Adapt (make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose)