Verboticisms

Created by: Stevenson0

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Created by: shoppingame

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: sala/day/shush

Sentence: It was embarassing watching her nibbling on a carrot because her relationship with food was so saladacious!

Etymology: salacious (lustful) + salad

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Created by: babel

Pronunciation: en-gro-sir-eed

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Created by: chris

Pronunciation: men-yoo-morf-oh-sis

Sentence: Her legs turned to jelly as she realised that her menumorphosis was now complete

Etymology: menu (list of things to eat) + morphosis (change)

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Created by: alecstevenson

Pronunciation: diet-tribist

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Etymology: diet + diatribe + ist

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Created by: Jabberwocky

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Sentence: It was embarassing watching her nibbling on a carrot because her relationship with food was so saladacious!

Etymology: salacious + salad

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COMMENTS:

haha, nice - deadpanwalking, 2006-11-15: 14:11:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: glut ton need

Sentence: Eggbert was consumed by his need for food. It ate away at him and turned him into a gluttoneed. Lettuce learn more: His parents had come here from the Cukeraine and fed him well. It did not help that he worked in a grocery store. He was head of the cabbage dept. and squashed his largesse into a uniform. He took leeks regularly, would always turnip on time and did not earn a large celery. His co-workers thought he was a fungi, even though there was not mushroom for advancement. He would romaine calm in a crisis and peppered his language with some salty phrases. He didn't have many dates and appeared not to carrot all for anything but food. But for all his faults, he was a human bean and did not deserve the beeting he got from the Zucchini Brothers. Poor Eggbert, Rest In Peas!

Etymology: Glutton (a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess) & Need (a condition requiring relief;the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior)

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: gore/mi/vat/ed

Sentence: He was totally gourmivated by food of any kind and his 438 pounds was a testament to this addiction.

Etymology: gourmivated - from gourmand (a person who is fond of good eating, often indiscriminatingly and to excess) + dominated (controlled, or governed)

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Created by: Paloma

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Sentence: Anna started turning into a psychophage when she took the phrase "you are what you eat" to heart as her dietary motto.

Etymology: psych (soul, mind) + phage (eat)

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