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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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Aqueat
Created by: Kevcom
Pronunciation: Ack-wheat
Sentence: "Clear the plate young man! Aqueat your food - starving children would love to have that last piece of brocolli on your plate."
Etymology: Aquit (to clear), Eat (to consume)
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
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)
Foodanism
Created by: vmalcolm
Pronunciation: /fu:dənɪzəm/
Sentence: "Brothers and Sisters, this is a proposal for you to stop feeling that guilt when a piece of chicken has been left on the plate and you have no freezer... Convert to Foodanism, feel the spirituality of an empty plate..." "By foodanizing everything you'll feel the relief... the calm... Eat! Consume!"
Etymology: FOODANISM. From Food (A specified kind of nourishment) + ISM (suff. Doctrine; theory; system of principles)
Gluttonagia
Created by: Anthporter
Pronunciation: glutt'n'a'jeh
Sentence: Thinking of all the poor children in the world, Bob couldn't help but clean off his plate in a moment of gluttonagia.
Etymology: glutton: a person devoted to eating and drinking in excess -agia: a derivative of the Greek phago, to eat; sounds like Asia, in reference to "think of those poor, starving children in Asia"
Gulpability
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: gulp/a/bill/i/tee
Sentence: Dave's gulpability was uncontested. He felt he had to finish every last drop of food or drink so that it would not go to waste - unfortunately it went to waist.
Etymology: culpability + gulp
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COMMENTS:
Big Gulpability an new 7-Eleven drink! - Scrumpy, 2007-10-12: 09:55:00
Very good word blend with wider application. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-10-14: 19:10:00
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Scrapture
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: skrap-chur
Sentence: He knew he should have stopped after consuming the entire chicken breast, but seeing the crispy skin lying tantalizingly before him, he got caught up in the scrapture.
Etymology: scrap, rapture
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COMMENTS:
Holy Scrapture Batman! - Scrumpy, 2007-10-12: 10:00:00
Awesom - skunkchunk, 2007-10-13: 17:13:00
e - skunkchunk, 2007-10-13: 17:13:00
Great word - OZZIEBOB, 2007-10-14: 18:59:00
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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
Carepigitis
Created by: Garry
Pronunciation: "Care" "pig" itis
Sentence: My brother,even though he was a lite eater, developed carepigitis on Thanksgiving Day!
Etymology:
Fanguish
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: Fan-gwish
Sentence: Bob had a nutribent: he always had to chowhole every last crumb from his plate. Was it bingetwinge, culpident or fangpang that consumed him or ayenbite of inwit that drove him? No-one really knew, but some suggested that he was merely a peckadent shamnivore with glut-instinct. But, although, and perhaps, it was just fanguish!
Etymology: Fanguish:fang-tooth & to eat & anguish. Chowhole: blend of chow,whole & hole. Nutriment:food & bent(inclination.)'Ayenbite of Inwit'(Remorse of Conscience)-Kentish work of M English. Peckadent(peck & decadent.)Shamnivore:feigned eater.
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COMMENTS:
you could add vanquish to your etymology - Jabberwocky, 2007-10-12: 09:26:00
Over the Top! Excellent! - Scrumpy, 2007-10-12: 09:58:00
Cute - MrDave2176, 2007-10-12: 16:31:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by MrDave2176. Thank you MrDave2176! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by MrDave2176. Thank you MrDave2176. ~ James