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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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Suprasucrabuse
Created by: ratibala
Pronunciation: soo-rah-sook-ruh-byoos
Sentence: Found in a sort of coma, surrounded by bon bons, it was found that my mother suffered from suprasucrabuse.
Etymology:
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"
Donuttony
Created by: planetneutral
Pronunciation: Dough-Nut-ony
Sentence: His weight skyrocketed due to his donuttony.
Etymology: Donut + Gluttony
Sacchariate
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: sah-CARE-ee-ayt
Sentence: Jim could even sacchariate over pictures of pastries.
Etymology: saccharin + verbal ending
Philoglucophagy
Created by: morganfrost
Pronunciation: fill-o-GLOO-ko-fa-ji
Sentence: He claimed that his weight problem was hormonal, but everyone knew it was a combination of indolence and philoglucophagy.
Etymology: Philo=love/Gluco=sugar/phagy= eating
Candyvore
Created by: kevinrio
Pronunciation: Can-di-vore
Sentence: My daughter is candyvoring a lot lately. So like me!
Etymology: From the adj. candyvore candy + vore (latin)
Jamcramming
Created by: wysware
Pronunciation: jam-cram-ming
Sentence: I guess from all those empty donut boxes that you've been jamcramming again
Etymology: jam (sweet sugary substance) cram (to overfeed)
Candilepsy
Created by: lela2210
Pronunciation: can-di-lep-see
Sentence: At first he was worried at the look on her face and the slight spasming as she ate the chocolate, then he realised that she merely suffered from the all too common candilepsy.
Etymology:
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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