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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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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.
Candysexual
Created by: helanren
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Don't be such a candy-ass! Admit it, you love them sweets just as much as the next candysexual!
Etymology: From candy- and -sexual. A common aberration that is however not easily acknowledged by people who suffer from it.
Pleasurfeit
Created by: xcruser88x
Pronunciation: Pless - ur - fit
Sentence: In a moment of pleasurfeit, Mike "took twenty," eating four "Take5" bars.
Etymology: Pleasure + surfeit
Gluphoria
Created by: ahwinters
Pronunciation: Glue-foria
Sentence: If it weren't for his gluphoria, Bill would not have eaten the whole box of donuts.
Etymology: glucose (sugar) + euphoria
Shunkie
Created by: logan260
Pronunciation: shunk-ee
Sentence: Jim is such a shunkie.....he starts getting squirrelly about 10:00 am and climbs the walls till he gets a donut or candy bar. Then he eats 3 or 4 and starts crashing about 2:00. He's fortunate his metabolism is so high.
Etymology: junkie: technically slang for anyone who has an addiction to opiates usually but loosely applied to addiction to other substances as well. i.e. He's a sugar junkie. "Shunkie" is a fusion of those two words, "sugar" and "junkie"
Sugarphob
Created by: svasiljeva
Pronunciation:
Sentence: They sugarphob everyday and have great troubles wuth their stomachs.
Etymology: phobia characterized by eating sugared substances
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
Posimistic
Created by: 2fast4murk
Pronunciation:
Sentence: i am very posimistic about the future
Etymology: combination of positive and optimistic
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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