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DEFINITION: n. A sudden, uncontrollable desire to eat something fast, usually occurs at bedtime. v. To eat food while lying in bed.
Verboticisms
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Soporifeast
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: sop or if eest
Sentence: his soporifeasts helped him sleep, but his breath ensured his partner stayed awake for hours
Etymology: soporific, feast
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COMMENTS:
This is soporlative, gets my vote! - Alchemist, 2007-03-26: 10:04:00
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Compiefood
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: compie food
Sentence: if there is no sex i will take compiefood
Etymology: compensation food
Napsnack
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: nap snak
Sentence: When Vanessa asked Hungry Harry what he was doing bringing pizza to bed, he told her he need fatty food to sleep properly. He called it his napsnack. She thought it was more like a siesta fiesta when washed down with his usual beer, Snooze Booze.
Etymology: Nap (a period of time spent sleeping) & Snack (a light informal meal) and Wordplay on Knapsack
Bedtimebinge
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: bed-time-binge
Sentence: Joe often became peckish for a quick bite resulting in a bedtimebinge.
Etymology: bedtime + binge
Sleepapnibble
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: slEEp-ap-nib-ble
Sentence: Jill suffers from sleepapnibble, a sleep eating disorder that has her feasting at all hours of the night.
Etymology: sleep apnea/nibble
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COMMENTS:
Like the connection, the idea that the hunger keeps the sufferer awake. Good stuff! - Bulletchewer, 2007-03-26: 08:01:00
If Jill stops breathing during a sleepapnibble episode it could lead to sleepapnibbledribble - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-26: 15:52:00
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Dreambun
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: dream-bun
Sentence: Guthrie always succumbed to dreambunning. It led to the collapse of his marriage due to crumbreconcilable differences in the bed room.
Etymology: cream bun (my favourite tuck shop treat when I was a kid) + dream (something one does at bedtime + something one yearns for)
Gastromnia
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˌɡæsˈtɹɑmniə/
Sentence: The five pounds I put back on is probably due to some combination of gastromnia and the fact that I've recently learned how to bake.
Etymology: From gastro- and insomnia
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COMMENTS:
One letter away from gastromania...hmmm... - Discoveria, 2007-03-26: 12:12:00
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Vitotic
Created by: chaok
Pronunciation: Vee-taw-tihk
Sentence: Resisting my vitotic sensations was one of the key ways I lost a lot of my weight.
Etymology: This comes from an episode of "Viva la bam", where Vito lays on a bed and eats several chicken wings as a prank on Johnny Knoxville. Thus, when you are eating in bed you are being like vito.
Hiberneating
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: hye burn eee ting
Sentence: She hated his hiberneating. He would go to sleep afterwards, but his gut would talk all night
Etymology: hibernating, eating
Eveyenning
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: eev/yen/ing
Sentence: Eveyenning is a food craving that only occurs after dusk.
Etymology: evening + yen (desire or craving)
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COMMENTS:
Didn't Eve Yenning own that diner on Route 46? - metrohumanx, 2008-07-13: 21:37:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by ziggy41.
Thank you ziggy41! ~ James
lumina - 2008-07-11: 20:40:00
Omg...I laughed out loud on this one!
Today's definition was suggested by ziggy41. Thank you ziggy41. ~ James