Verboticisms

Created by: Paloma

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Sentence: Anna started turning into a psychophage when she took the phrase "you are what you eat" to heart as her dietary motto.

Etymology: psych (soul, mind) + phage (eat)

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Created by: Jabberwocky

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Sentence: It was embarassing watching her nibbling on a carrot because her relationship with food was so saladacious!

Etymology: salacious + salad

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haha, nice - deadpanwalking, 2006-11-15: 14:11:00

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Created by: Stevenson0

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: grəbˈse sh ən

Sentence: Milk is good for you, milk is bad for you. Eggs are wonderful, eggs are terrible. Far too many Americans are obese but artificial sweeteners could cause cancer. The media is sure to jump on every scientific study that comes out. Food, sustenance, vittles, grub, whatever you call it, if you follow along on your home scoresheet you may well develop a grubsession. Hey, maybe this is a syndrome. Can we do a study?

Etymology: grub (food) + obsession (an idea or thought that continually preoccupies or intrudes on a person*s mind)

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we certainly are grubsessed but now we know we're so full of preservatives that we should last longer - Jabberwocky, 2009-07-15: 14:12:00

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Created by: jrogan

Pronunciation: fee-dis-tir-ee-ah

Sentence: Buffy's feedysteria started with a hunger to be "sweet and cute". It was compounded by her firmly held belief that "You are what you eat". And so, she restricted her diet to sugar and bunny rabbits. It makes sense she'd say, as she nibbled at her fingernails.

Etymology: feed + hysteria

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Created by: rombus

Pronunciation: an - om - meal - ee

Sentence: Donald had a strange anomealy. He had an unusual obsession with everything he ate and couldn't stop thinking about his next meal. He analyzed every grain, stalk, leaf and fiber and imagined himself as part of a larger garden. His soul had drifted away to the great garden in the sky.

Etymology: anomaly (A deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal; Something or someone that is strange or unusual), meal

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great word - porsche, 2009-07-15: 14:17:00

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: sala/day/shush

Sentence: It was embarassing watching her nibbling on a carrot because her relationship with food was so saladacious!

Etymology: salacious (lustful) + salad

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Created by: bjorn

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Sentence: Beatrice was utterly befooded by the bountiful birthday banquet before her.

Etymology: bewitched/bothered/bewildered/befuddled/ be-whatevered + food

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: gore/mi/vat/ed

Sentence: He was totally gourmivated by food of any kind and his 438 pounds was a testament to this addiction.

Etymology: gourmivated - from gourmand (a person who is fond of good eating, often indiscriminatingly and to excess) + dominated (controlled, or governed)

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Created by: deadpanwalking

Pronunciation: nur-ish-MENT-al

Sentence: When Snoop went on the Long Beach Diet, that motherf***er went nourishmental with his rider demands.

Etymology: nourishment + mental

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