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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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Altrugluttony
Created by: LoftyDreamer
Pronunciation: al-tru-glut-uny
Sentence: Because of his altrugluttony, Hal started a Weight Watchers group at his place of employment, the Atlanta Food Bank.
Etymology: altru (from altruism, the selfless regard for others) + gluttony (eating to excess)
Foodanism
Created by: vmalcolm
Pronunciation: /fu:dənɪzəm/
Sentence: "Brothers and Sisters, this is a proposal for you to stop feeling that guilt when a piece of chicken has been left on the plate and you have no freezer... Convert to Foodanism, feel the spirituality of an empty plate..." "By foodanizing everything you'll feel the relief... the calm... Eat! Consume!"
Etymology: FOODANISM. From Food (A specified kind of nourishment) + ISM (suff. Doctrine; theory; system of principles)
Afreatin
Created by: dogran
Pronunciation: afr-ee-tin
Sentence: What on earth is that man doing licking that woman's plate? Its very unfortunate but after he visited africa he has come over all afreatin and such
Etymology: Eating for Africa
Gastroguiltology
Created by: wjames
Pronunciation: gastro-guilt-ology
Sentence: Jim's large stomach was not the result a high consumption of beer, as most people thought. It was his practice of gastroguiltology passed down to him by his depression-era parents.
Etymology: Gastronomic - guilt (science of)
Gourmanthropy
Created by: Boomertoo
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Her gourmanthropy did not appear to give her any solace.
Etymology:
Obligeater
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: ob-lig-eet-er
Sentence: Although the servings were huge, obligeater that he was, Doug polished off everything on the plate
Etymology: obligate, eater
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.
Chowbella
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: choubelə
Sentence: In a slightly misguided act of atonement, Gerry started the Double Clean Plate Club. When he was a kid his mother had always pushed him to clean his plate for the starving children of the world. Now with the thought that more is better, members gorge themselves with what Gerry calls chowbella, beautiful food. So far he and his club members have raised a lot more blood pressures than dollars. Next week*s gourmand-a-thon may change that.
Etymology: chow (food) + bella (beautiful - Italian)
Gluttonagia
Created by: Anthporter
Pronunciation: glutt'n'a'jeh
Sentence: Thinking of all the poor children in the world, Bob couldn't help but clean off his plate in a moment of gluttonagia.
Etymology: glutton: a person devoted to eating and drinking in excess -agia: a derivative of the Greek phago, to eat; sounds like Asia, in reference to "think of those poor, starving children in Asia"
Gluttonorist
Created by: aigle101
Pronunciation: glut-ton -o -rist
Sentence: Did you see this guy ,he's a real gluttonorist ,he can't help himself
Etymology: glutton: eats for emotional reason rist: describes the person
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by MrDave2176. Thank you MrDave2176! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by MrDave2176. Thank you MrDave2176. ~ James