Verboticism: Constipulsion

'Why are you licking your pizza?'

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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Constipulsion

Created by: rephil

Pronunciation: kahn-stih-PUL-zhun

Sentence: Ada's numerous constipulsions meant that the waiter's order read like a manual for diffusing a bomb -- which, in fact, it was.

Etymology: compulsion -- an irrational need to do something; consume -- to use, eat; constipation -- a condition where the digestion is stuck in a particular state. Verb: (irr.) Constipuleat

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Comments: Constipulsion

rephil - 2007-06-20: 10:00:00
Too bad you can't enter both the noun and verb forms of the definition!

purpleartichokes - 2007-06-20: 10:12:00
I like the sound of both of them!