Verboticisms

Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: con/sum/ated

Sentence: After falling into a batch of boiling consomme, he became consommated.

Etymology: consume + consomme + ate

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Stock up on boullion...good word! - Nosila, 2009-07-16: 01:20:00

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Created by: Lapper

Pronunciation: in-VORS

Sentence: Jane's friends noted that she was invoresing; she had bought over twelve onion novelty items, and had eaten the same amount, in the past half hour.

Etymology: Inverse and -vore

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Created by: Starzie

Pronunciation: Munch-ology

Sentence: Ingrid studied Munchology in college and was constantly consumed by any food item that was put in front of her.

Etymology: Munchology: The engrossed studying of eating and thus one becomes consumed by food and eating anything.

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COMMENTS:

Shhhh.. don't tell anyone but I majored in Munchology too. - MisUndrstd, 2007-07-05: 20:13:00

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Created by: annieb

Pronunciation:

Sentence: I'm foodsessing again.

Etymology: from food and obsess, as in, you are so obsessed with your food, it consumes you

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Created by: loofarama

Pronunciation: revenge-table

Sentence:

Etymology: revenge + vegetable

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: engrossed

Sentence: "Lettuce Prey" intoned the minister. "It is so sad that a member of our flock has been engrocered in her vegetable garden.

Etymology: engross + grocery

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"Lettuce Prey" intoned the minister. "It is so sad that a member of our flock has been engrocered in her vegetable garden. - petaj, 2007-07-05: 02:58:00

Sigh - petaj, 2007-07-05: 02:58:00

"herd" you the first time - galwaywegian, 2007-07-05: 05:56:00

Can you rephrase that in grosser terms? - Clayton, 2007-07-05: 06:46:00

Why, I artichoke you, but I'm too busy munching on my freshly picked lettuce. - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-05: 07:23:00

At least lettuce isn't as cucumbersome to manipulate grammatically. ;D - Kyoti, 2007-07-05: 13:37:00

I love a gramma pie. - petaj, 2007-07-06: 02:18:00

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˈanˌθelm/

Sentence: After eating nothing but carrots for a week, the yellow tint of his skin betrayed the fact that he was slowly being anthelmed by them.

Etymology: From Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, who originally said "Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es," ("Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are,") from which we get the phrase "You are what you eat."

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you're a very smart guy ErWenn - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-05: 13:15:00

Would it decrease your opinion of my intelligence to learn that I only know this quote because it shows up at the beginning of every episode of Iron Chef? - ErWenn, 2007-07-05: 21:37:00

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Created by: weareallbeautiful

Pronunciation: r-uh-v-er-s-kuhn-soo-mm-d

Sentence: Mary burst into tears as she realized that her rabbit had been reverseconsumed by the carrot she had given it.

Etymology: From the word reverse meaning opposite which comes from the latin root reversus meaning to turn back and the word consume meaning to eat or devour from the latin root consumere meaning to use up, eat or waste

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Created by: MisUndrstd

Pronunciation: Kan-ed-i-bal-ism

Sentence: When I started the job as a stocker in the canned foods section at Wal-Mart I didn't realize I would fall victim to an ancient roughage ritual called Cannedibalism

Etymology:

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Best thing about cannedibalism is you take it with you for those long flights over the Andes. - HALibut, 2007-07-05: 13:19:00

The best thing about Andes is the cool minty center. Looks like you have done well with this one, LilMis. WTG! - Kyoti, 2007-07-05: 13:28:00

Arn't we all a bit cannedibalistic lol. Liking this word. Wtg Lil good site. - realnutty01, 2007-07-05: 17:46:00

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Created by: fefefeha7

Pronunciation: Con-soom-e-full

Sentence:

Etymology:

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