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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.
Verboticisms
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Seefoodiet
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: seafood-diet
Sentence: Wally wasn't called Wally because his name was Wallace, it was because he resembled a Walrus due to his seefoodiet.
Etymology: An oldy but a goody. I'm on a diet. Oh really, what kind? A seafood diet. I see food and eat it.
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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Guilttony
Created by: AlohaJo
Pronunciation: Guilt-ton-y.
Sentence: In an act of sheer guilttony, he ate all of his food. And his brother's. And his parent's. And his pet's...
Etymology: Guilt (from "guilt"), and tony (from "gluttony")
Blananane
Created by: Caatheerine
Pronunciation: Bla - na - na - ne
Sentence: i want an blananane.
Etymology: Talking banana
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COMMENTS:
love it :) - Caatheerine, 2007-10-13: 00:18:00
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Cleanplatism
Created by: nyxnekhbet
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Joe wasn't really hungry but his cleanplatism kept him from leaving even a morsel for the mice.
Etymology:
Philupthropy
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: fill-up-thrah-pee
Sentence: his expanding waistline was a testament to his philupthropic ways
Etymology: fill up, philanthropy
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COMMENTS:
so clever!! - libertybelle, 2007-10-12: 10:30:00
Love it. - aayeye, 2007-10-14: 17:42:00
Excellent! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-10-14: 19:15:00
Wow! I was thinking along those lines:) - FayeWord, 2007-10-17: 23:02:00
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Compunctuate
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: km punk chu ayt
Sentence: Gary's impulse to compuctuate himself at every meal was no doubt a result of growing up listening to his mother's incessant "Clean up your plate...kids in Africa are starving" rantings.
Etymology: Compunction (a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed) & Ate (fed oneself)
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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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by MrDave2176. Thank you MrDave2176! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by MrDave2176. Thank you MrDave2176. ~ James