Verboticism: Abnibble
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".
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Healteat
Created by: cococo
Pronunciation: heal - teet
Sentence: I'm healteating very often because I want to lose weight.
Etymology: health + eat
Buffake
Created by: sweetking
Pronunciation: buh-feyk
Sentence: It was maddening to watch her fill an entire plate with desserts and then proceed to eat only the chocolate bits of each item. If she would just eat one full dessert it would have less calories than trying to buffake her way around the meal.
Etymology: combining buffet and fake
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COMMENTS:
let them eat buffake. - scrabbelicious, 2008-08-14: 11:02:00
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Consumerotic
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kon soom er otik
Sentence: Although already thin, Skinny Minnie adopted a consumerotic attitude towards dining. She ate only healthy, lean, dietetically nutritional foods. She was passionate about passion fruit, loved dates and enjoyed the nut in all nutritional foods. She devoured everything she ate and savoured each morsel. She had highly effective metabolism (don't you hate her?) and could burn calories just by devouring goodies with her eyes (I do). Yes, she was drop fed gorge-ous!
Etymology: Consume (eat, devour,use up) & Erotic (giving pleasure; sexually arousing)
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COMMENTS:
Sometimes I worry about you Nosila - galwaywegian, 2010-01-14: 07:48:00
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Glutsploit
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /glʌtsplɔɪt/
Sentence: He spent much effort tyring to glutsploit his diets and fitnesse his exercise schemes, searching for a lazy way to lose weight. He did succeed in losing weight, but in the end, his complicated methods involved more work than he would have spent on calorie-counting and daily exercise. Some think that his weight loss was due more to the extreme stress caused by his methods than it was to the methods themselves.
Etymology: From glut + exploit
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COMMENTS:
Wow - no wonder it took you so long to get that sentence out - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-20: 12:36:00
That actually only took a few minutes. I just had to go teach my classes for the day beforehand, and I wanted to get a word out first in hopes of gleaning some morning votes. - ErWenn, 2007-06-20: 18:01:00
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Liet
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: lie-et
Sentence: she only ate fruit flavoured ice cream because she was on a very strict liet
Etymology: lie, diet
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COMMENTS:
Maybe she's not getting enough lietary supplicants. - Clayton, 2007-06-20: 03:44:00
Probably reading too many literary supplements from the Medical journals. - petaj, 2007-06-20: 03:58:00
too many books spoil the broth - rikboyee, 2007-06-20: 05:27:00
Too many books in the kitchen. - Clayton, 2007-06-20: 07:06:00
Yet many hands make liet work. - petaj, 2007-06-20: 08:14:00
and in ice cream many calories liet in weight - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-20: 12:18:00
and in ice cream many calories liet in weight - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-20: 12:19:00
This may be the shortest verboticism ever...is it? - ErWenn, 2007-06-20: 12:22:00
Gets my vote. - Clayton, 2007-06-20: 21:33:00
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Vegebation
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: veg/uh/bey/shun
Sentence: Vegebation is the peculiar ritual Tiffany practises. She only drinks her food. She juicers all her vegetables and tofu together and drinks her meals to prevent wear and tear on her teeth and reduce facial aging lines from chewing. Vegebation is also part of the 'X-Man' cultasy which proclaims that this activity will reduce the side effects of youthanesia.
Etymology: vegetarian + libation; vegebation -n. An idiosyncratic method of eating, usually adopted for "health reasons".
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COMMENTS:
veganomics - Nosila, 2010-01-14: 15:49:00
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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
Wriffleat
Created by: wisedude321
Pronunciation: Riffle-eet
Sentence: To avoid gaining wait many people Wriffleat
Etymology: Created by Wisedude321 on June 20, 2007
Pizzaslap
Created by: ajcor
Pronunciation: as it sounds
Sentence: What is bound to happen if one tries to eat another's person's PIZZA while indulging single mindly in a frolic of one's own!
Etymology: Pizza as in food of choice and Slap as in what happens as a direct result to the Pizza Top Licker. Particularly when the Crumb to yummy Pizza Top ratio has been studied empirically and found lacking!
Poshnosh
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: posh/nosh
Sentence: She would only eat food worthy of her position. Her poshnosh habit unforunately only involved rich food
Etymology: posh nosh
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COMMENTS:
Sounds like her tastes were Victorian. Hmm is that the dinner bell Beckhaming? - petaj, 2007-06-20: 23:23:00
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