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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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Compunctuate
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: km punk chu ayt
Sentence: Gary's impulse to compuctuate himself at every meal was no doubt a result of growing up listening to his mother's incessant "Clean up your plate...kids in Africa are starving" rantings.
Etymology: Compunction (a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed) & Ate (fed oneself)
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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Leftoeuvre
Created by: MrDave2176
Pronunciation: LEFT-eu-vrr
Sentence: Kit picked over the remains of the bloomin' onion and the bits of sirloin scattered about the table at the Outback until there was nary a leftoeuvre remaining. Her friends shook their heads sadly as they watched her gnawrosis manifest itself. gnawrosis: to eat compulsively.
Etymology: left(over) + oeuvre (in the sense of a complete set) = all the food left on the table. gnaw + neurosis = to compulsively eat.
Catholick
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: cat o lihk
Sentence: He gave his plate a Catholick
Etymology: catholic, lick
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COMMENTS:
I love it! - astorey, 2008-09-12: 10:43:00
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Gulpability
Created by: hooterbug
Pronunciation: ˌgəl-pə-ˈbi-lə-tē
Sentence: Max's extreme Gulpabilty had caused him to balloon to a quite hefty 450 pounds. All his life his mother had chastised him for not finishing his meals. "Think of all the kids in India Max that dont get anything but rice, or whatever it is they grow over there!" I'm sure they would LOVE to get some fresh peas and corn in their bellies"
Etymology: Gulp (a large and hurried swallow; "he finished it at a single gulp") + Culpable (blameworthiness, a state of guilt)
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COMMENTS:
Well done! - astorey, 2008-09-12: 10:41:00
Great word! - TJayzz, 2008-09-12: 13:06:00
We'd hate for him to be too gulpable! - Nosila, 2008-09-12: 22:21:00
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Blananane
Created by: Caatheerine
Pronunciation: Bla - na - na - ne
Sentence: i want an blananane.
Etymology: Talking banana
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COMMENTS:
love it :) - Caatheerine, 2007-10-13: 00:18:00
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Grubsessive
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: grəbsɛsɪv
Sentence: Having grown up being chided to always be in the ”clean plate club”, Billy has become grubsessive. The disposer in his sink is in practically pristine condition. Those starving children in Africa don’t stand a chance getting anything out of this food chain.
Etymology: grub (food) + obsessive (to be preoccupied)
Platepleaser
Created by: Roosje
Pronunciation:
Sentence: While the platepleaser felt very satisfied about finishing his six course dinner, the homeless men outside was hungry because the garbage can had nothing to offer today.
Etymology: Plate = food Pleaser = to please
Glutanthropy
Created by: FayeWord
Pronunciation: glut-an-throw-fy
Sentence:
Etymology: glutton; philanthropy
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by MrDave2176. Thank you MrDave2176! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by MrDave2176. Thank you MrDave2176. ~ James