This week's theme: words with hidden animals.
bulimia (boo-LIM-ee-uh, byoo-) noun
1. Excessive or insatiable appetite.
2. An emotional disorder marked by bouts of overeating followed by
purging, by means of self-induced vomiting, laxatives, etc.
[From New Latin bulimia, from Greek boulimia, from bous (ox) + limos
(hunger).]
Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=bulimia
Literally speaking, bulimia is ox hunger. It's not clear whether it
means one could eat like a bull, or eat a whole bull. It's also known
as boulimia, bulimia nervosa, bulimarexia, binge-purge syndrome.
It's a strange world where some eat and then throw it up lest they
become fat, while there are millions who go to bed hungry, even in a
rich nation like the USA.
-Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org)
"Eating disorders are also a daily subject for viewers of the prime-time
soap opera 'The Pages of Our Lives,' in which a 15-year-old ballet
dancer suffers from bulimia, secretly making herself vomit after eating
to keep her weight down."
Brazil Transfixed by 4th Anorexia Death; Associated Press; Dec 27, 2006.
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