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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
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Saccharinicate
Created by: jennw2ns
Pronunciation: Sak-kah-RIN-ih-kayt
Sentence: People tend to saccharinicate around the holidays.
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
If the definition is given as a verb, how come most of the verboticisms are nouns? - jennw2ns, 2006-12-15: 10:32:00
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Sacromania
Created by: seldumonde
Pronunciation: sack-row-may-nee-uh
Sentence: Jack had to satisfy his sacromania by gorging on handfuls of sweets.
Etymology: Sacro = from sucrose, sugar Mania = obsession
Candevour
Created by: Amerie
Pronunciation: can-dee-vow-r
Sentence: Tom couldn't walk past the bakery without the urge to candevour everything in sight.
Etymology: candy + devour
Saccharophiliac
Created by: Jonno
Pronunciation: sak/ar/oh/fill/ee/ak
Sentence: Rob was unexpectedly outed as a saccharophiliac when the bag of white powder found in his suitcase tested positive for sherbet.
Etymology: Saccharine(sweet) + Philiac (one that has a tendency towards)
Swicken
Created by: condor
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Geez! He swickens on those pastries like crazy! No wonder he feels bad.
Etymology: sweet + sick + en
Sweetover
Created by: annanas
Pronunciation: sweet/over
Sentence: If you continue sweetovering you will look like a pig!
Etymology: sweet + over-consumption
Surgasm
Created by: andystager
Pronunciation: shur-gas-em
Sentence: As soon as Eric got home from trick-or-treating he dove into his candy stash and surgasmed on Snickers
Etymology: Sugar + Orgasm
Sugarsex
Created by: hjbolte
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Due to al long night of sugarsex, he tried to find the waterbottle.
Etymology:
Honeyhorse
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: hun/ee/hors
Sentence: As the "honeyhorse" looked over the big buffet of bonbons before him, he began chomping at the bit in eager anticipation of which one to devour first.
Etymology: honey: a sweet substance + horse: as in eat like a horse
Sweetmouth
Created by: memexikon
Pronunciation: sweet mouth
Sentence: Overcome by sweetmouth, the president is decaying as we speak.
Etymology: sweet + mouth
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
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