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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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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
Sucrophatic
Created by: pjlilley
Pronunciation: Sook-ro-FAT-ic
Sentence: My husband gets incredibly sucrophatic around the holidays.
Etymology: sucrose (sugar), philic (to have an affinity for), changed to phat for effect.
Grubricate
Created by: msokoloffster
Pronunciation: Gruh - bri - kate
Sentence: She bought powder sugar and oil in order to grubricate.
Etymology: Unknown...
Overcandisic
Created by: ipswich78
Pronunciation: over - candy - sick
Sentence: She was extremely overcandisic in her love of bon-bons
Etymology: sick from over eating of candy!
Sweetitillate
Created by: llimllib
Pronunciation: Swee-`tit-ill-late
Sentence: The new "candy bar" at the movie theater was designed to massively sweetitillate its customers.
Etymology: From the greek "tit", literally "a nodule of flesh capped with an especially sweet raisin".
Sucruttony
Created by: solitair
Pronunciation:
Sentence: He ate so many sweets he died of sucruttony.
Etymology:
Sweetmouth
Created by: memexikon
Pronunciation: sweet mouth
Sentence: Overcome by sweetmouth, the president is decaying as we speak.
Etymology: sweet + mouth
Orgasbord
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: or-gas-bord
Sentence: Despite the fact that Bob was known for extolling the virtues of the Atkins diet to everyone he met, he was spotted orgasbording at the office holiday cookie platter several times.
Etymology: orgasm, smorgasbord
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COMMENTS:
My first post... hope it is acceptable. Nice to see so many "snigleteers" out there! - purpleartichokes, 2006-12-15: 06:04:00
Hey PurpleArtichokes, Good word and a funny sentence! - wordmeister, 2006-12-15: 18:26:00
Thank you, Wordmeister! - purpleartichokes, 2006-12-15: 20:23:00
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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...?
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