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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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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
Overindolcevita
Created by: Fleury
Pronunciation: oh-ver-in-dull-chay-VEE-tah
Sentence: Standing before the heavenly assortment of glazes, powders, and chocolate sprinkles, I succumbed to overindolcevita, diving into the sugar-rainbow mouth first.
Etymology: "over indulge" + "La Dolce Vita" (the sweet life)
Candyvore
Created by: kevinrio
Pronunciation: Can-di-vore
Sentence: My daughter is candyvoring a lot lately. So like me!
Etymology: From the adj. candyvore candy + vore (latin)
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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Doughnutty
Created by: Marthat
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Oh, don't leave those on the table, you know Jeff is so doughnutty he'll eat them all.
Etymology:
Sugluttony
Created by: pdefenestrator
Pronunciation:
Sentence: In the ultimate act of sugluttony, Tom ate 3 dozen crispy cremes in one sitting.
Etymology: Sugar+gluttony
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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