manorexia

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English

Etymology

Blend of man +‎ anorexia.

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Noun

manorexia (uncountable)

  1. (humorous, informal) Anorexia nervosa (or any similar eating disorder) when occurring in a male.
    • 2006 April, David A. Keeps, “Dennis Quiad”, in Best Life, 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, →ISBN:
      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, →ISBN, 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 quotations using this term, see Citations:manorexia.
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