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DEFINITION: v. To pig out at your desk right before a business lunch, so you'll be satisfied with a salad and water at the restaurant, and create the impression that you're not a glutton. n., A secret snack taken to strengthen one's resolve not to eat too much while others are watching.
Verboticisms
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Sneaksnack
Created by: chaiandallthatjazz
Pronunciation: snik-snack
Sentence: Shannon had a quick sneaksnack before going to the Friday lunch with the office gang. It kind of backfired on her as she still ended up looking like a glutton when all she was hungry for was conveniently, dessert.
Etymology: sneak + snack
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COMMENTS:
good word. - Mustang, 2008-01-15: 03:48:00
right on the button! - bananabender, 2008-01-15: 21:53:00
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Prelimingest
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: prilimənjest
Sentence: Gloria always keeps a stock of snack foods her desk drawer to ensure she won’t be caught hungry for a business lunch. Her plan is to prilimənjest so that she can appear delicate and demure. Strangely, she doesn’t go to business lunches very often but has to replenish her stash weekly.
Etymology: preliminary (denoting an action or event preceding or done in preparation for something fuller or more important) + ingest (take food, drink, or another substance into the body by swallowing it)
Prevour
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: pre-VOW-er
Sentence: Having an abnormally huge appetite Miranda found it socially necessary to prevour on office lunch days so as to be able to restrict her food intake at the weekly office lunch.
Etymology: Blend of the 'pre' (prefix meaning before) and 'devour' (to swallow or eat up hungrily, voraciously, or ravenously)
Premasticator
Created by: day4ghee
Pronunciation: pre-mas-ti-kator
Sentence: susan was accused of being a premasticator by billy who had witnessed her shoveling anything from ho-ho's to hot pockets into her face before the office lunch,he offered the tattered remains of a pizza bagle as evidence of the carniage.
Etymology: pre-to come before., masticate- to chew,or eat.
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COMMENTS:
Goo one - TJayzz, 2008-11-12: 06:28:00
Sorry Good one! - TJayzz, 2008-11-12: 06:29:00
Excellent! - Mustang, 2008-11-12: 18:25:00
No, it WAS a goo one. Very nice. - metrohumanx, 2008-11-14: 02:43:00
I like it.... - mweinmann, 2008-11-14: 07:52:00
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Clandesdine
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: klan-des-dahyn
Sentence: When Jill heard that the boss was going to surprise the staff by sending out for pizza. She really didn't like pizza too much so she knew she would have to clandesdine at her desk if she was going to get a decent meal. The box of donuts stashed in her bottom drawer was surrepdelicious.
Etymology: clandestine (done in, or executed with secrecy or concealment) + dine (to take any meal)
Previgorge
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: PRE-veh-gorj
Sentence: Sandra had a 'secret' technique to avoid eating large meals at company gatherings that she called previgorge and though she knew that others in the office knew of her habit, she continued with the practice hoping that influential people at company luncheons would be impressed with her 'sensible self control'.
Etymology: Blend of 'previous' (coming or occurring before something else; prior) and 'gorge' (a gluttonous meal)
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COMMENTS:
Great word - OZZIEBOB, 2008-11-13: 02:37:00
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Prelunch
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: prēlənch
Sentence: As she prepared for the prelaunch celebration of her company*s newest health food offering Joan snuck out for a prelunch. A deep-fried, lard-laden cow-chow meal is completely at odds with her company*s mission statement but she had to get through the presentation of their new granola snack without shoving her face in the bowl. She felt a little better when she busted her boss in the checkout line of the local **greasy spoon** holding a match to her selection.
Etymology: prelaunch (concerning activities or conditions before the launch of a spacecraft, campaign, product, etc.) + lunch (a meal eaten in the middle of the day, typically one that is lighter or less formal than an evening meal) lunch
Plurge
Created by: courty3303
Pronunciation: Plh-urge
Sentence: I need to plurge before tonights business dinner.
Etymology:
Prebingeinate
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: pree-binj-in-ate
Sentence: Sue prebingeinated every time her friends asked her out for lunch unbeknownst to them.
Etymology: pre + binge
Cramouflage
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Cram-o-fl-arge
Sentence: Hillary thought her cramouflage plan was really clever, before going to the restaurant for a business meeting she ate a vast amount before she left so that she looked in full control when ordering a small salad and water for lunch. She felt so good knowing that nobody would ever guess her little secret.
Etymology: Cram(to fill or stuff) + Camouflage(hide or disguise) = Cramouflage
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COMMENTS:
terrific - Jabberwocky, 2008-11-12: 09:09:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James
silveryaspen - 2008-01-15: 10:12:00
Thanks for the fun definition, remistram. Great job on all the verboticisms by all the verbotomists ... what a fun one for us all!
Jabberwocky - 2008-01-15: 10:17:00
Her her - oops I meant hear hear (my mouth was full as I'm snacking at my desk)
Thanks for all the tasty words! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James