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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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Diasweeties
Created by: janedoe
Pronunciation: dahy-uh-swee-teez
Sentence: Hide the chocolate! I've got a note from my doctor and serious case of diasweeties.
Etymology: From Latin, Greek: Diabetes; American: trans fat.
Whitepig
Created by: Madamemojo
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: The color of granulated sugar
Glucoverdose
Created by: DoctorManhattan
Pronunciation: 'glü-'kO-v&r-"dOs
Sentence: "If you eat all those deep-fried Twinkies, you're going to glucoverdose."
Etymology: From Greek "gleukos" meaning "sweet wine" + from Old English "over" + from Greek and Latin "dosis" meaning "gift".
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COMMENTS:
Deep fried twinkies? That sounds good! - wordmeister, 2006-12-15: 17:25:00
I know. There was this restaurant in L.A. that would sell them, but every time we went there they were closed for one reason or another (family emergencies (heart attacks?), etc.) and then they finally closed permanently, so I never got a chance to try o - DoctorManhattan, 2006-12-17: 14:35:00
ne. By all reports, they were exquisite, though. Guess I'll have to try it myself one of these days. - DoctorManhattan, 2006-12-17: 14:36:00
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Sweetonism
Created by: wilhelmg
Pronunciation:
Sentence: She suffers from an extreme case of sweetonism.
Etymology: sweet + hedonism
Donutting
Created by: bluefunky
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I was out of control, I mean I was donutting all over myself.
Etymology:
Autosaccharinate
Created by: Sissyphus
Pronunciation: auto sakarin ate
Sentence: It was horrible to see when the twins made a concentrated effort to out autosaccharinate each other.
Etymology: auto = self, saccharin = white crystal 500 times sweeter than sugar, -ate = verbalizing suffix
Donuttony
Created by: planetneutral
Pronunciation: Dough-Nut-ony
Sentence: His weight skyrocketed due to his donuttony.
Etymology: Donut + Gluttony
Glucgasm
Created by: simon1081
Pronunciation: gluc-gasm
Sentence: The police officer was enjoying the donuts so much he was having a glucgasm
Etymology:
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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