bant

Miss Louder tells me I can 'bant' -- whatever that is -- to take down my flesh, and mebbe you'll see me some day, Miss Lou, in a re'l ladylike part.

Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper James A. Cooper

The three-voice O Venus bant has ascriptions to ‘Gaspar’ and Josquin; the editors of the New Josquin Edition observe details that make it unlikely to be by Josquin and note similarities in La stangetta.

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The scientific rationale behind this supposed cause and effect was based on observation, experimental evidence, and maybe the collected epiphanies and anecdotes of those who had successfully managed to bant.

'Good Calories, Bad Calories' 2007

"If he is gouty, obese, and nervous, we strongly recommend him to 'bant,'" suggested the Pall Mall Gazette in June 1865.

'Good Calories, Bad Calories' 2007

Other languages picked it up and use bant or some variant as their word for dieting in general, not just low-carb dieting.

Banting’s Letter on Corpulence | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007

"I shall have to bant if I can't break myself of this habit of sitting on gentlemen's knees."

Of Human Bondage 1919

A nice verb, to bant, though not approved of by the dictionary, which scornfully terms it "humorous and colloquial".

Penguin Persons & Peppermints Walter Prichard Eaton 1917

Mr. Blythe is the present international bant-weight champion.

One Third Off Tony Sarg 1910

Doctor Banting, of England, the father of latter-day dietetics from whose name in commemoration of his services to mankind we derive the verb intransitive "to bant," had theories wherein his chief contemporaneous

One Third Off Tony Sarg 1910

"Would you like me to bant in case of accidents?" laughed Gwen.

The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story Angela Brazil 1907