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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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Ethiopig-out
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: E-the-oh-pig-out
Sentence: Darlene mindlessly began to mindlessly Ethiopig-out on the left over goulash after the dinner discussion turned to the starving children of Namibia.
Etymology: Ethiopia - a third world country reknown as a shoot location for "Save the children" infomercial shoots + Pig-out- to gorge oneself on food in the manner as would a pig.
Obligeater
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: ob-lig-eet-er
Sentence: Although the servings were huge, obligeater that he was, Doug polished off everything on the plate
Etymology: obligate, eater
Noshnik
Created by: davrand
Pronunciation: Nosh + nik
Sentence: My husband Shlomo is such a noshnik. When I got up this morning to wash the dishes from last night dinner party, I found crumbs in the sink where he was eating all the leftover crackers and cheese.
Etymology: A combination of nosh, to eat food greedily, from the Yiddish word for snack bar and nudnik, an irritating person, a bore, from the Russian word nudnyĭ meaning tedious.
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.
Irrefeastable
Created by: crmow
Pronunciation: ir-i-FEEST-uh-buh-l
Sentence: Jerry had an irrefeastable urge to scarf down every entree on the buffet.
Etymology: irresistable + feast
Hooverize
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: WHO-vuhr-eyes
Sentence: Timmy The Beard returned from his sojourn in the deep woods and proceeded to HOOVERIZE every edible morsel placed before him.
Etymology: HOOVER-a popular brand of vacuum cleaner + suffix "IZE" = HOOVERIZE.
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COMMENTS:
I just came in at number twenty-five-I'm oh so happy and so glad to be alive. Everybody says i'm gonna get to the top....Life is so easy when your record's hot ! - metrohumanx, 2008-09-12: 15:28:00
Amazing. I zoomed up to #59 in like. 30 minutes.Go figure :) - metrohumanx, 2008-09-12: 16:24:00
As long as he doesn't like to J.Edgar Hooverize...or as they sing in Monty Python's Lumberjack Song..."I cuts down trees, I wears high heels, suspenders and a bra, I wants to be a lady, just like my old Papa!: - Nosila, 2008-09-12: 22:33:00
Timmy the Beard. I think I dated him. :) - lumina, 2008-09-12: 22:49:00
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Mollycoddle
Created by: hiladizzle
Pronunciation: moll-y-coddle
Sentence: Bob's such a mollycoddle. He keeps eating even though he claims to be stuffed.
Etymology: Mollycoddle - n., To overindulge. v., To be overindulged.
Pignial
Created by: julyd
Pronunciation: pig-ni-al
Sentence: His friends often said he was in pignial because of his excessive eating habits and poor justifications.
Etymology: pig + denial
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by MrDave2176. Thank you MrDave2176! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by MrDave2176. Thank you MrDave2176. ~ James