Verboticism: Sustentashun

'I don't want to get fat'

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

ohwtepph

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

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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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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.

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Celluleftovers

Created by: Kyoti

Pronunciation: Sell-yoo-left-oh-verz

Sentence: Margie, wearing her skinny jeans, worriedly decided to leave a few celluleftovers.

Etymology: Cellulite+leftovers

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Antivomit

Created by: evthalia

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Thinub

Lapper

Created by: Lapper

Pronunciation: thin-UB

Sentence: When Mary saw the double-portion of prime rib set in front of her, she thinubbed it immediately, being on a diet.

Etymology: Thin and snub.

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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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Abdiceat

Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: ab + dik + eat

Sentence: I'm just stuffed, I'm going to have to abdiceat.

Etymology: abdicate, with a twist. (What a twist!)

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Dietritus

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: dye ett ritt uss

Sentence: Her plate was strewn with detritus, as she sat sipping her diet drink and admiring her bone structure reflected in the restaurant window.

Etymology: detritus, diet.

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Love it. - Clayton, 2007-07-03: 05:04:00

very funny - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-03: 13:07:00

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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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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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