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DEFINITION: v., To finish your plate and eat all the food in front of you, even when not hungry. n., Compulsive over-consumption of food in order to relieve guilt.
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Stuffinate
Created by: skunkchunk
Pronunciation: Stuff-in-ate
Sentence: Lard looked lovingly at all the food left on his plate, and though bloated and satiated, he couldn't resist the urge to stuffinate himself!
Etymology: gorge, stuff oneself to the brim
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COMMENTS:
Stuff + suffocate :) Great! - FayeWord, 2007-10-17: 23:04:00
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Cleanplateclubitis
Created by: astorey
Pronunciation: cleen/playt/club/eye/tis
Sentence: For years, the threat of no dessert and the empty allure of membership in the 'Clean Plate Club' goaded Stacey into finishing all the food on her plate, even if it meant eating well past the full point into tummy-aching illness. Today, Stacey still suffers from cleanplateclubitis, using garlic bread to scrape up any remaining pasta sauce.
Etymology: The Clean Plate Club, insidious coercion technique used by parents of the previous generation(s) to get kids to eat all their food, plus itis, the common suffix related to disease.
Afreatin
Created by: dogran
Pronunciation: afr-ee-tin
Sentence: What on earth is that man doing licking that woman's plate? Its very unfortunate but after he visited africa he has come over all afreatin and such
Etymology: Eating for Africa
Bullshitemia
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: buhl shit eeee meee aah
Sentence: His bullshitemia increased his hunger whenever he saw starvation on the news.
Etymology: bulemia, bs
Oversalvism
Created by: deaninc
Pronunciation: over-sal-vism
Sentence: having oversalvism may lead to psychological disorders
Etymology: The sensory perceptors creating over-zealous enzymes within the mouth triggering individual ideology.
Overgluttonizing
Created by: wtwhitaker
Pronunciation: o-vur/glut-tun/is-ing/
Sentence: It is crazy to overgluttonize even when the food isn't yours.
Etymology: over(more) glutton(eating a lot) ize(suffix)
Glutanthropy
Created by: FayeWord
Pronunciation: glut-an-throw-fy
Sentence:
Etymology: glutton; philanthropy
Chowcow
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: chou-kou
Sentence: Billy was such a chowcow that he not only finished everything on his own plate, he made the rounds of everyone else at the table to hoover in every stray morsel. In a restaurant, he would request an extra basket of bread to sop up any remaining juices on his plate. His personal mantra? "You gonna finish that?"
Etymology: Chow (food) + cow (a domestic bovine)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by MrDave2176. Thank you MrDave2176! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by MrDave2176. Thank you MrDave2176. ~ James