Verboticism: Munchrite
DEFINITION: v. tr. To eat in a peculiar or ritualistic manner in an effort to lose weight while consuming more. n. An idiosyncratic method of eating, usually adopted for "health reasons".
Voted For: Munchrite
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Nibblesandbits
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: nib-bles-and-bits
Sentence: Jill's dieting strategy consisted of nibbles-and-bits. Then for desert, a tasty milkbone.
Etymology: kibbles and bits/nibble
Anorexeating
Created by: blondibabi121692
Pronunciation: an or ex ee ting
Sentence:
Etymology:
Idiosyncaloric
Created by: serendipity9000
Pronunciation: id-eo-sin-ca-lore-ic
Sentence: Her eating regimen was very idiosyncaloric - it insisted she only consume dairy and candy.
Etymology: IDIOSYN (from idiosyncratic - peculiar to the individual) + CALORIC
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COMMENTS:
sounds good to me - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-20: 12:45:00
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Alphabedining
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: alfa be dyn ing
Sentence: Being a slave to fad dieting, Trixie had found a new regime to try. It was called alphabedining and basically you could order whatever you wanted as long as you ate fruits and vegetables in the alphabetical order of their names. So she would eat the apples, apricots or avocados first. Then the bananas, beans, beets next. By LMNO, she was usually full. At this rate, Trixie would never get to eat yams or zucchini again.
Etymology: Alphabet (a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language) & Dining (eating,consuming food)
Insuffergest
Created by: weyrlady
Pronunciation: in-suffer-gest
Sentence: I hate having to insuffergest.
Etymology: insufficient + insufferable + suffer +ingest
Vegebation
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: veg/uh/bey/shun
Sentence: Vegebation is the peculiar ritual Jenny practises. She is a vegetarian who only drinks her food. She juicers all her vegetables and tofu together and drinks her meals. Vegebation is part of the 'X-Man' cultasy which proclaims that this activity will reduce the side effects of youthanesia and prevent wear and tear on teeth and reduce facial aging lines from chewing.
Etymology: VEGEBATION - noun - fro VEGETARIAN (a person who does not eat meat) + LIBATION (the act of drinking; the drinking of a liquid offering as a religious ritual)
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COMMENTS:
Excellent ento! At least she's not reduced to mastication. - metrohumanx, 2008-08-13: 03:36:00
Eggcellent - Mustang, 2008-08-13: 08:23:00
great combo - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-13: 10:27:00
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Gorgemony
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: GORJ-eh-mone-ey
Sentence: Clarissa is a gorgemony devotee who engages in a ritualistic 'dining' wherein she endlessly and vigorously eats huge amounts of granola bars, a variety of nuts and dried fruits and other organic foods that she believes will insure her lasting health and vitality.
Etymology: Blend of the words 'gorge' (v. to stuff with food (usually used reflexively or passively) and 'ceremony' (n. any formal act or observance, especially a meaningless one)
Fadieting
Created by: wallac44
Pronunciation: fuh-dieting
Sentence: My mother's weight keeps yo-yoing because of all of the fadieting she does.
Etymology: Fad and diet.
Ritualemia
Created by: texmom
Pronunciation: writ tyou ul e mia
Sentence: When in full ritualemia, she ate only the pimentos from the olives.
Etymology: ritual - rite emia - disorder
Gourmandgo
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: gore-mand-go
Sentence: Some people thought Lenny was totally aliMENTAL, but he was a dedicated practitioner of gourmandgo. This diet regime required him to eat copious amounts of mangoes all the while fidgetlicking to burn up calories.
Etymology: go man go (encouraging cry for those exercising) + gourmandise (make a pig of oneself) + mango (yum, plus full of antioxidants)
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COMMENTS:
Don't blame me... I voted for Gourmand. - Clayton, 2007-06-20: 05:59:00
Appearantly, he had no grape desire to change his currant eating habits. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-20: 09:46:00
No, he was persimmonently sticking to the regime, although the side effects of all that fibre were difficult to pear. He kept appleying himself to the diet the same way he plummed the depths in his study of Mandarin and was still olive long after his grandchildren started dating. They apricioted his efforts and did not ban a nana from joining him, although he was figgin ginormous after a couple of years. - petaj, 2007-06-20: 22:53:00
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