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'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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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.

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Jockeychew

Created by: scrabbelicious

Pronunciation: Jaw/key/ch/uh

Sentence: As Dan cuddingly jockeychewed his way through the McD menu he masticated over a day when bacon would be served as a condiment and elasticated waistbands were a retro fashion accessory.

Etymology: Jockeychew v. Spicey mix of 1. Jockey n. (Usually weight conscious) person who rides on the back of an animal. 2. Chew v. to masticate.

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Do you want a PhD with that? - scrabbelicious, 2008-08-13: 12:41:00

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Celeremony

Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: SEL-uh-ree-moh-nee

Sentence: Elena reverently placed the perfectly trimmed stalks into place - a perfect pentagram (5 grams), in preparation for her nightly celeremony.

Etymology: celery, ceremony

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did she get much of a celeriaction - galwaywegian, 2007-06-20: 06:38:00

petaj Ahh, preparation for celery sacrificing. - petaj, 2007-06-20: 08:15:00

I bet her body was riddled with celleryulite - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-20: 08:43:00

Not only did she have celleryulite, but her carroted artery was clogged. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-20: 08:59:00

The sacred celeremony is necessary to achieve vegemony. - Alchemist, 2007-06-20: 14:38:00

And after that is there a celerybration? - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-20: 15:30:00

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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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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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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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veganomics - Nosila, 2010-01-14: 15:49:00

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Noshematics

Created by: jadenguy

Pronunciation: nosh em at ix

Sentence: It was a miracle Janice was even alive; a string of sustenance superstition superceded sanity as she strained strombole through silk. for every meal, three square. her noshematics were often of much interest to the others aboard the station, but they were nothing compared to Marko's troughorensics.

Etymology: nosh + schematics

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simply startling she survived - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-20: 11:14:00

some say she should'a seen some scythe surprise... - jadenguy, 2007-06-20: 12:46:00

strained stromboli sounds somewhat soupy - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-20: 14:44:00

supposedly so. - jadenguy, 2007-06-20: 15:07:00

petaj I've heard of others with a scientific approach. Bobby liked to have his portions weighed to the microgram and examined under an electron microscope on the plate to look for faults. He was into platetechtronics. - petaj, 2007-06-20: 23:02:00

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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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sounds good to me - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-20: 12:45:00

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Snibble

Created by: Pythias

Pronunciation:

Sentence: His gaze was locked in utter horror as she could only snibble and nitpick her way around the pie.

Etymology: selectively nibble

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To snibble kibble can cause a quibble. (sorry!) - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-20: 09:18:00

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Richewalesstic

Created by: bookowl

Pronunciation: rich/chew/a/less/tic

Sentence: The richewalesstic method involves a tic like motion which causes one to chew less and therefore absorb fewer calories.

Etymology: rich + chew + less + tic + ritualistic

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Sucking the marrow there owly. Bon apetit! - scrabbelicious, 2008-08-14: 11:00:00

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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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Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-06-20: 01:30:00
Today's definition was inspired by Robert J. Sawyer's Rollback. It may be science fiction, but when Rob gets rolling you can't help but laugh at the details of our daily lives -- like eating pizza. Rollback's pizza moment starts off with, "She was used to the way her husband ate pizza, but couldn't actually say she liked it", and then jumps right into the gory details. Thanks Rob! ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-06-20: 04:41:00
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