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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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Sugourmandy
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
Pleasugasmy
Created by: paperpieces
Pronunciation: Pleas-sue-gaz-mee
Sentence: Whenever I have a cookie, my kids always wonder why I pleasugamize, or savor it wildly.
Etymology: Plea- meaning pleasure, su- from sucrose, gasm- from orgasm.
Canacious
Created by: caley
Pronunciation: Ca-nay-shus
Sentence: I love cakes with icing, they're so canacious.
Etymology: the word is derived from cane as in sugar cane
Diasweeties
Created by: janedoe
Pronunciation: dahy-uh-swee-teez
Sentence: Hide the chocolate! I've got a note from my doctor and serious case of diasweeties.
Etymology: From Latin, Greek: Diabetes; American: trans fat.
Shunkie
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"
Glutony
Created by: torgone
Pronunciation: gloo ten ee
Sentence: The sales office is an orgy of glutony on Friday morning.
Etymology: gluten + gluttony
Lustcose
Created by: IHeartKiwiTarts
Pronunciation: "lust-cose"
Sentence: I have so many lustcose desires for my jar of fluff
Etymology: from the word lust, and the ending of glucose ( glucose as you know is sugar)
Sucragorge
Created by: librarygrrrl
Pronunciation: SUE-kra-gorj
Sentence: After Halloween, I never want to sucragorge again!
Etymology: sucrose + gorge
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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