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DEFINITION: To return to the gym after a long layoff to discover that your muscles may be weak, but that your sweat is still strong.
Verboticisms
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Stenchpress
Created by: ChristopherAndersen
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COMMENTS:
A google search tells me rikboyee came up with this word before I did. But it's not on the list anymore. Verbotomy allowed me to enter it. Are we losing words? - ChristopherAndersen, 2007-08-01: 00:23:00
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Taebeeo
Created by: KristinA
Pronunciation: tie-bee-oh
Sentence: The New Year's resolution to loose weight is, in reality, an exodus of couch potatoes to the gym for a month or two of taebeeohing.
Etymology: Tae Bo + B.O. (body odor)
Experspise
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: EHKS-pur-spize
Sentence: Alex's girlfriend wouldn't hug him, because the results of his experspise were visually evident from ten feet away--and aromatically evident from twenty.
Etymology: excerise + perspire
Stairschlepper
Created by: kabloozie
Pronunciation: stare-shlep-per
Sentence: Workout? After a week of watching reruns and eating snickerdoodles I can barely manage a stairschlepper.
Etymology: stairstepper + schlepp (a yiddish word meaning 'to drag'
Gymwhiff
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: Jim + wif
Sentence: He was a flabby dumb-bell who, after starting an early morning, get-fit program, never thought to shower his gymodorous self before swithering to the office. His gymwhiff was so strong that fellow workers avoided this gymnauseous sweat-trough like the plague.
Etymology: "Gym" of (gymnasium) + Whiff. Cognates: gymwhiffer, gymwhiffs, gymwhiffish, gymwhiffing.
Calistenchics
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: cal/i/stench/ics
Sentence: Wow - these calistenchics are producing such huge muscles and such a strong manly scent - I'll soon be the pitpong champion of the gym.
Etymology: calisthenics + stench
Sweatstrong
Created by: riomarde
Pronunciation: sweat/strong
Sentence: I badly need a shower after that sweatstrong workout.
Etymology: strong + sweat
Streo
Created by: missmurder
Pronunciation: stree-oh
Sentence: The man was surprised when he found out he had streo.
Etymology: strong+body oder
Smellyfatronic
Created by: dancerxoxox
Pronunciation: smelly/fat/ron/ic
Sentence: his body was in smellyfatronic mode.
Etymology: smelly - fat - ironic
Aeromacise
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: Air-oh-muh-size
Sentence: I tried to impress the ladies with my deltoid crunches, but only managed to aeromacise profusely until someone called the pest control company to check for rodents in the walls.
Etymology: Aerobics + aroma + exercise
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COMMENTS:
very funny - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-26: 14:22:00
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