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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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Starveating
Created by: mustkeepsanity
Pronunciation: star-vee-ting
Sentence: Andrew starveats any leftovers. The resulting stomach aches help him commiserate with those who have nothing to eat.
Etymology: Starving, Eating
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.
Gluttoneed
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: glut ton need
Sentence: Stanley ate for others. He had a definite gluttoneed. Instead of donating what he paid for all this food (like 8 delivered pizzas tonight alone) to an organization, he felt the gluttoneed to eat for others and show he could do his part when the Pizza Place donated a dollar for every pizza sold to Overeaters Anonymous. Yes, Mr. Big-Hearted Donor, was contemplating ordering fried chicken tomorrow night to support Chicken Breast Cancer, Restless Chicken Leg Syndrome and Buffalo Wings Transplants (who wants to see a Buffalo without wings?). On the weekend he planned to order fifteen Hot Dogs to donate money to Dogters Without Border Collies; Find the Cur and Seeing-Eye Hot Dogs. Yes, Stanley was an angel, who was fast out-growing his halo!
Etymology: Gluttony ( eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins);habitual eating to excess) & Need (have need of; require as useful, just, or proper;the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior)
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COMMENTS:
Nice! - hiladizzle, 2008-09-21: 22:13:00
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Chowbella
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: choubelə
Sentence: In a slightly misguided act of atonement, Gerry started the Double Clean Plate Club. When he was a kid his mother had always pushed him to clean his plate for the starving children of the world. Now with the thought that more is better, members gorge themselves with what Gerry calls chowbella, beautiful food. So far he and his club members have raised a lot more blood pressures than dollars. Next week*s gourmand-a-thon may change that.
Etymology: chow (food) + bella (beautiful - Italian)
Scrappetite
Created by: lumina
Pronunciation: scrap/e/tite
Sentence: Louis wondered how he was ever going to be in good enough shape to join the guys in their first "Bros to the Finishline Marathon." His mother first painted that picture of starving children in Africa who would do anything to eat his brussel sprouts for breakfast, lunch AND dinner when he was about three years old. Since then, he has had a very unhealthy scrappetite and cannot leave a single crumb on his plate. While his buddies cross the finish line, he will be on the sidelines tossing them cups of water, proud of the fact that it is due to his "inner humanitarian" that he can't join them on this one.
Etymology: Scrap + Appetite
Compleatism
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /kəmˈplidˌɪzṃ/
Sentence: The compleatist was also very lazy, so the nearly empty jar of peanut butter that he couldn't be bothered to scrape out sat in the cupboard for years.
Etymology: complete + eat + -ism
Gulpability
Created by: hooterbug
Pronunciation: ˌgəl-pə-ˈbi-lə-tē
Sentence: Max's extreme Gulpabilty had caused him to balloon to a quite hefty 450 pounds. All his life his mother had chastised him for not finishing his meals. "Think of all the kids in India Max that dont get anything but rice, or whatever it is they grow over there!" I'm sure they would LOVE to get some fresh peas and corn in their bellies"
Etymology: Gulp (a large and hurried swallow; "he finished it at a single gulp") + Culpable (blameworthiness, a state of guilt)
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COMMENTS:
Well done! - astorey, 2008-09-12: 10:41:00
Great word! - TJayzz, 2008-09-12: 13:06:00
We'd hate for him to be too gulpable! - Nosila, 2008-09-12: 22:21:00
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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.
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by MrDave2176. Thank you MrDave2176! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by MrDave2176. Thank you MrDave2176. ~ James