Vote for the best verboticism.
DEFINITION: v. To enjoy, or derive physical pleasure from, the eating of sweets and other sugared substances -- often leads to over-consumption. n. Pleasure derived from the consumption of sweets.
Verboticisms
Click on each verboticism to read the sentences created by the Verbotomy writers, and to see your voting options...
You have two votes. Click on the words to read the details, then vote your favorite.
Sweetonism
Created by: wilhelmg
Pronunciation:
Sentence: She suffers from an extreme case of sweetonism.
Etymology: sweet + hedonism
Canfrenzdy
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: can-frenz-dee
Sentence: His canfrenzdy reached an embarrassing point when he was seen eating the half-eaten donuts from the meeting that had been discarded and thrown in the waste bin.
Etymology: candy + frenzy (as in craze, delirium, hysteria)
Glucogulp
Created by: Tealeaf
Pronunciation: gloo'-ka-gulp
Sentence: "I'm about to glucogulp my way out of these size 6 shorts."
Etymology: glucose and gulping a glutton does make
Hoolafooding
Created by: SALZKAMMERGUT
Pronunciation: [hu:la fu:ding]
Sentence: To substitute friends and parties he went on hoolafooding.
Etymology: First part derives from a hawaiian word.
Sinalicious
Created by: Dancebert
Pronunciation: sin-a-lish-ous
Sentence:
Etymology: sin + delicious
Swicken
Created by: condor
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Geez! He swickens on those pastries like crazy! No wonder he feels bad.
Etymology: sweet + sick + en
Sucroglutopulsive
Created by: Blackcloud
Pronunciation: Sook-row-gloo-toe-pul-siv
Sentence: He's such a sucroglutopulsive person, he'll never lose weight.
Etymology: sucro from sugar, gluto from gluttony, pulsive from compulsive.
Saccharinicate
Created by: jennw2ns
Pronunciation: Sak-kah-RIN-ih-kayt
Sentence: People tend to saccharinicate around the holidays.
Etymology:
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
If the definition is given as a verb, how come most of the verboticisms are nouns? - jennw2ns, 2006-12-15: 10:32:00
----------------------------
Comments:
wyzowl - 2006-12-15: 01:28:00
Gluttony has made it so. Eating at any time in excess of your body needs is gluttony.
Fleury - 2006-12-15: 02:36:00
Yes, I used 'overindolcevita' for http://www.verbotomy.com/verbotomy.php?jid=kiss already. Sorry, but it just seemed so apt for this one as well.
i spelled my word wrong! how do i change it?
- 2006-12-15: 07:50:00
Hi Loosepeice, We are adding a VSEC (Verboticism Spelling, Editing and Correction) feature this weekend... ~ James
warped - 2006-12-15: 12:51:00
aw, someone already made "Gluephoria"...why can I never think of something original? It always seems like someone beats me to the punch...I guess I should get up earlier. :D
warped - 2006-12-15: 12:53:00
btw, There's no way to change/retract a word, is there?
Hi warped, Not yet... but soon! ~ James
Seems the early verb catches the worm voting wise, eh?
ArosaMike - 2006-12-17: 18:55:00
Woohoo! I made a 100% unique word :D Get in ;)
Works well as a noun, but as a verb...?
duktoreks - 2016-12-09: 00:20:00
“> “>
duktoreks - 2016-12-09: 00:22:00
“>