Verboticism: Starvingchinasyndrome
DEFINITION: v., To finish your plate and eat all the food in front of you, even when not hungry. n., Compulsive over-consumption of food in order to relieve guilt.
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Oversalvism
Created by: deaninc
Pronunciation: over-sal-vism
Sentence: having oversalvism may lead to psychological disorders
Etymology: The sensory perceptors creating over-zealous enzymes within the mouth triggering individual ideology.
Compleatism
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /kəmˈplidˌɪzṃ/
Sentence: The compleatist was also very lazy, so the nearly empty jar of peanut butter that he couldn't be bothered to scrape out sat in the cupboard for years.
Etymology: complete + eat + -ism
Catholick
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: cat o lihk
Sentence: He gave his plate a Catholick
Etymology: catholic, lick
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Cleanplateclubitis
Created by: astorey
Pronunciation: cleen/playt/club/eye/tis
Sentence: For years, the threat of no dessert and the empty allure of membership in the 'Clean Plate Club' goaded Stacey into finishing all the food on her plate, even if it meant eating well past the full point into tummy-aching illness. Today, Stacey still suffers from cleanplateclubitis, using garlic bread to scrape up any remaining pasta sauce.
Etymology: The Clean Plate Club, insidious coercion technique used by parents of the previous generation(s) to get kids to eat all their food, plus itis, the common suffix related to disease.
Appenitite
Created by: tehbeks
Pronunciation: ah peh nuh tite
Sentence: Robert had skipped church that morning, so he decided to perform his appenitence with gusto at brunch.
Etymology: appetite + penitence
Bullshitemia
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: buhl shit eeee meee aah
Sentence: His bullshitemia increased his hunger whenever he saw starvation on the news.
Etymology: bulemia, bs
Gobblesate
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Gobb-el-sayt
Sentence: As a child, Tom's mother always reminded him of the starving children in Africa everytime he thought about leaving his dinner. So even now at the age of forty two he would never leave a single thing on his plate in order to ease the guilt of the mental picture she had planted firmly in his head. Even if he had to sit there for hours just to make sure every scrap of food had been eaten, it didn't matter as long as he felt he had done his bit for mankind. This could possibly explain why he weighed thirty five and a half stone!
Etymology: Gobble( to hurriedly eat a large amount) + Sate( supply with as much or more than desired or can be managed) = Gobblesate
Shovelicious
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: Shuh-vuhl-ish-shuhs
Sentence: Stan's wife's meatloaf was absolutely shovelicious, as the three empty casserole pans could attest to, if they were actually able to talk.
Etymology: Shovel: eat fast + Delicious: tasty meal.
Terribleat
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: terr + ih + bleat
Sentence: Look, those poor kids are starving, so the least I can do is terrobleat this food...for them.
Etymology: terrible + eat + guilt, of course
Starvingchinasyndrome
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: stahr-vihng-CHYE-nuh-sihn-drohm
Sentence: Alex grew up to develop starvingchinasyndrome; sadly, he often cleaned dates' plates before they were done with them.
Etymology: "You'd better clean your plate, there are starving children in China!" + China syndrome + syndrome
