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manorexia
manorexia
English
Noun
manorexia (uncountable)
- (humorous, informal) Anorexia nervosa (or any similar eating disorder) when occurring in a male.
- 2006, David A. Keeps, "Dennis Quiad", Best Life, April 2006, page 74:
- Preparing for the role— taking in only 900 calories a day and running 5 miles — he [Dennis Quiad] says he developed "manorexia."
- 2008, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Dirty Girls on Top, St. Martin's Press (2008), ISBN 9781429927437, unnumbered page:
- He's getting too flaquito, nena, all scrawny like Marc Anthony with his manorexia chiseling up his face.
- 2010, Freeman Hall, Stuff That Makes a Gay Heart Weep: A Definitive Guide to the Loud & Proud Dislikes of Millions, Adams Media (2010), ISBN 9781440510359, page 36:
- Manorexia has taken the younger gay community by storm, and gay hearts weep for the scrawny skin-and-bones younger gay hearts who look like they are on an emo hunger strike […]
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:manorexia.
- 2006, David A. Keeps, "Dennis Quiad", Best Life, April 2006, page 74: