Verboticisms

Created by: galwaywegian

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Created by: Amerie

Pronunciation: can-dee-vow-r

Sentence: Tom couldn't walk past the bakery without the urge to candevour everything in sight.

Etymology: candy + devour

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Created by: verbinator

Pronunciation: shu-gor-man-dee

Sentence: Receiving little gratification from his work at the IT help desk, Albert frequently reached for donuts, becoming another victim of sugourmandy.

Etymology: sugar + gourmand

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Created by: jdfalk

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Etymology: From the popular cartoon character Homer Simpson. One of his famous lines is "mmm, donuts," often followed by drooling.

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Created by: walkingdistraction

Pronunciation: gorge-as-um

Sentence: Oh my god, that donut just made me gorgeasm all over myself.

Etymology: gorge (as in: to over eat), and orgasm (as in: sexual climax)

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Created by: garrus

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Created by: Bernmeister

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Sentence: 'John succumbed to a bout of humanature as he polished off the last donut'

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Created by: oddnuance

Pronunciation: Gloo-co-soom

Sentence: "Look at that guy glucosume that entire cake!"

Etymology: Glucose + Consume

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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"

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: dee vower eks tasee

Sentence: Dieter and Denise dated at Dunkin Donuts daily and displayed devourecstasy doing a daily diet of delicious, dainty donuts and denying their dependence on delectable, desirable dining dalliances.

Etymology: Devour (enjoy avidly;eat greedily;eat immoderately) & Ecstasy (Intense pleasure;A state of emotion so intense that a person is carried beyond rational thought and self-control;A trance, frenzy, or rapture associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation.)

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