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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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Guilttony
Created by: AlohaJo
Pronunciation: Guilt-ton-y.
Sentence: In an act of sheer guilttony, he ate all of his food. And his brother's. And his parent's. And his pet's...
Etymology: Guilt (from "guilt"), and tony (from "gluttony")
Gluttoneed
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: glut ton need
Sentence: Stanley ate for others. He had a definite gluttoneed. Instead of donating what he paid for all this food (like 8 delivered pizzas tonight alone) to an organization, he felt the gluttoneed to eat for others and show he could do his part when the Pizza Place donated a dollar for every pizza sold to Overeaters Anonymous. Yes, Mr. Big-Hearted Donor, was contemplating ordering fried chicken tomorrow night to support Chicken Breast Cancer, Restless Chicken Leg Syndrome and Buffalo Wings Transplants (who wants to see a Buffalo without wings?). On the weekend he planned to order fifteen Hot Dogs to donate money to Dogters Without Border Collies; Find the Cur and Seeing-Eye Hot Dogs. Yes, Stanley was an angel, who was fast out-growing his halo!
Etymology: Gluttony ( eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins);habitual eating to excess) & Need (have need of; require as useful, just, or proper;the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior)
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COMMENTS:
Nice! - hiladizzle, 2008-09-21: 22:13:00
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Fanguish
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: Fan-gwish
Sentence: Bob had a nutribent: he always had to chowhole every last crumb from his plate. Was it bingetwinge, culpident or fangpang that consumed him or ayenbite of inwit that drove him? No-one really knew, but some suggested that he was merely a peckadent shamnivore with glut-instinct. But, although, and perhaps, it was just fanguish!
Etymology: Fanguish:fang-tooth & to eat & anguish. Chowhole: blend of chow,whole & hole. Nutriment:food & bent(inclination.)'Ayenbite of Inwit'(Remorse of Conscience)-Kentish work of M English. Peckadent(peck & decadent.)Shamnivore:feigned eater.
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COMMENTS:
you could add vanquish to your etymology - Jabberwocky, 2007-10-12: 09:26:00
Over the Top! Excellent! - Scrumpy, 2007-10-12: 09:58:00
Cute - MrDave2176, 2007-10-12: 16:31:00
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Gulpability
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: gulp/a/bill/i/tee
Sentence: Dave's gulpability was uncontested. He felt he had to finish every last drop of food or drink so that it would not go to waste - unfortunately it went to waist.
Etymology: culpability + gulp
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COMMENTS:
Big Gulpability an new 7-Eleven drink! - Scrumpy, 2007-10-12: 09:55:00
Very good word blend with wider application. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-10-14: 19:10:00
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Specktroscoopick
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: spec/trow/scoop/ic
Sentence: Stan was a very specktroscoopick individual and would scoop up or pick up every speck of food at the table no matter how minuscule the crumb might seem to the untrained eye.
Etymology: spectroscopic + speck + scoop + pick
Chowbella
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: choubelÉ™
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)
Glutanthropy
Created by: FayeWord
Pronunciation: glut-an-throw-fy
Sentence:
Etymology: glutton; philanthropy
Chowcow
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: chou-kou
Sentence: Billy was such a chowcow that he not only finished everything on his own plate, he made the rounds of everyone else at the table to hoover in every stray morsel. In a restaurant, he would request an extra basket of bread to sop up any remaining juices on his plate. His personal mantra? "You gonna finish that?"
Etymology: Chow (food) + cow (a domestic bovine)
Starvingchinasyndrome
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: stahr-vihng-CHYE-nuh-sihn-drohm
Sentence: Alex grew up to develop starvingchinasyndrome; sadly, he often cleaned dates' plates before they were done with them.
Etymology: "You'd better clean your plate, there are starving children in China!" + China syndrome + syndrome
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by MrDave2176. Thank you MrDave2176! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by MrDave2176. Thank you MrDave2176. ~ James