DEFINITION: v., To eat a strictly regulated diet in order to compensate for a complete lack of control when it comes to drinking. n., A smoker and drinker who becomes a vegan in order to “reverse the damage”.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Artichoker: /Arti-cho-ker/ Lucinda fumbled around the bottom of her handbag for a matchbox, gasping for a light. Striking the match she lit the end of the celery stick drawing a deep drag from it. The uncontrollable hacking that accompanied being an artichoker must surely have it’s benefits? Etymology: Created by: wordslikevenom.
Faddict: /fad dikt/ Beth was a faddict of any new diet that captured her imagination. She truly believed that eating vegan or other extreme diets would offset her dependence on smokes and drink. She would have had better luck on the vice cream diet, if there was such a thing! Etymology: Fad (an interest followed with exaggerated zeal) & Addict (someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance; abrupt deprivation of the substance produces withdrawal symptoms)
Created by: Nosila.
Dietchotomy: /dÄ«etkätÉ™mÄ“/ Though Jim decided to â€clean up†what he was eating he found it impossible to give up cigarettes. It created quite a dietchotomy in his life. Etymology: diet (a special course of food to which one restricts oneself) + dichotomy (a division or contrast between two things that are or are represented as being opposed or entirely different) Created by: artr.
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