a psychological disorder whereby grandmothers suffer from a distorted body image and pathological fear of acting their age. Granorexics may use dieting, self-induced vomiting, excessive exercise, and dressing in clothes more suitable for their grandchildren to highlight their 'ideal physique'. Granorexics often comment negatively about their children's and grandchildren's weight.
B. "Yeah, but she suffers from granorexia. She eats virtually nothing and spends all day doing situps so she can fit into her Fancy Ass jeans. I wish she would just bake my kids cookies instead of telling them about the grapefruit diet."
granorexia is when first time grandmothers freak out about being a "grandma" so they totally overhaul themselves to look hot by spray tanning, buying super young trash clothes and losing tons of weight. when these ladies lose too much weight trying to achieve their new look, they could be suffering from "granorexia".
"every since the baby was born, betty looks like she's trying to look friggin 18...plus she has gotten soooooooooooooo thin!"
"hmmmmm......smells like granorexia to me. wonder if the folks at INTERVENTION would be interested in this!"
Usually, the behavior involves vainity or youth obsession. Many also have this disorder out compulsiveness. Usually she will spend time making fatty concoctions to force feed her family (eating fatty grandma type cuisine vicariously through others), but she won't eat any of it more than once every 3 days. She always refuses to go to restaurants, claiming to hate them or that she thinks they are unclean. The reality is because the temptation is too great.
You take your child to seegrandma, and she looks all skeletal and haggard, with clothing from "forever 21, " and you start to become concerned that granny is a "granorexic"
British slang for a scientist or technical expert, esp . when the speaker is not certain of the expert’s specific field of study. Not necessarily derogatory, but typically used by persons without a technical background. In the US, the equivalent would be “egghead”, “squint”, or “geek.”
Origin of the word is unknown. Started sometime in World War 2. Given the typical evolution of British slang, could easily have started because what these experts did was confusing or “baffling” to the common person.
According to the boffins downstairs, the murdererused a serrated blade.
When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing pee calculus.
Short-hand for the word floccinaucinihilipilification, meaning the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).