Verboticism: Plurge
DEFINITION: v. To pig out at your desk right before a business lunch, so you'll be satisfied with a salad and water at the restaurant, and create the impression that you're not a glutton. n., A secret snack taken to strengthen one's resolve not to eat too much while others are watching.
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Prevour
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: pre-VOW-er
Sentence: Having an abnormally huge appetite Miranda found it socially necessary to prevour on office lunch days so as to be able to restrict her food intake at the weekly office lunch.
Etymology: Blend of the 'pre' (prefix meaning before) and 'devour' (to swallow or eat up hungrily, voraciously, or ravenously)
Cryptogobbler
Created by: logarithm
Pronunciation: krip-toh-gob-ler
Sentence:
Etymology: From 'crypto-' - a prefix to mean 'secret' or 'hidden', and 'gobble' - to eat something quickly and greedily.
Gluttifaction
Created by: roseannmvp
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Mary sat down for some gluttifaction before going on her first date with Chad.
Etymology: gluttony + satisfaction
Munchandlunch
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: munch and lunch
Sentence: Marianne's pre-emptive munchandlunch was an attempt to fill up before going out on Company lunch meetings. That way she could eat breadsticks and water and still appear sated.
Etymology: Munch (snack) & lunch (midday meal)
Prebingeify
Created by: jack189
Pronunciation: Pre-binge-if-i
Sentence: Jan was talking to Pam in the break room and Jan said, "I'm really hungry, but I don't want to eat a lot at that luch." "Yeah",replied Pam," I'm really going to have to prebingeify for this one!"
Etymology: Pre(before)+binge(to eat a lot)+ify(suffix used to make word a verb)
Hastytaste
Created by: treehous
Pronunciation: \ˈhā-stē-ˈtāst\ (hay-stee-tayste)
Sentence: Susan knew the presentation could drag on for hours, so she hastytasted a granola bar to hold her stomach over.
Etymology: Haste- Germanic Taste- Old French
Clandeskdine
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: klan-dehsk-dyne
Sentence: Knowing that her lunch meeting would be with that handsome sales rep and that she would only order a small garden salad and a water to impress him, Natasha hid in her cubicle and began her clandeskdine eating operation at 9 am with a large box of cinnamon rolls.
Etymology: clandestine - held in secrecy + desk + dine
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COMMENTS:
Good one! - Mustang, 2008-11-12: 18:24:00
Like it! - Nosila, 2008-11-12: 21:55:00
Me, too - OZZIEBOB, 2008-11-13: 02:38:00
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Prebingeinate
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: pree-binj-in-ate
Sentence: Sue prebingeinated every time her friends asked her out for lunch unbeknownst to them.
Etymology: pre + binge
Preglut
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Pree - glut
Sentence: To avoid seeming to be a heavy eater Lucinda always brought an ample supply of snack foods so she could preglut just before office lunches.
Etymology: Pre (before) + glut (feed to excess)
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COMMENTS:
Chuckling ... preg-lut and pre-glut ... a pregnant preglut ... springs to mind! Fun word! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-15: 09:53:00
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Clandesdine
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: klan-des-dahyn
Sentence: When Jill heard that the boss was going to surprise the staff by sending out for pizza. She really didn't like pizza too much so she knew she would have to clandesdine at her desk if she was going to get a decent meal. The box of donuts stashed in her bottom drawer was surrepdelicious.
Etymology: clandestine (done in, or executed with secrecy or concealment) + dine (to take any meal)
