Meanings
- humorousinformaluncountableAnorexia nervosa (or any similar eating disorder) when occurring in a male.
He's getting too flaquito, nena, all scrawny like Marc Anthony with his manorexia chiseling up his face.
2008, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Dirty Girls on Top, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN2 more examples
Preparing for the role— taking in only 900 calories a day and running 5 miles — he [Dennis Quiad] says he developed "manorexia."
2006 April, David A. Keeps, “Dennis Quiad”, in Best Life, page 74Manorexia 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 […]
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
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