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September 11, 2007, 09:58
wordcrafter
Overeating
After a week devoted to savory, good-tasting words, are you hungry? Good! Let’s devote a week to words about over-eating.

For instance, you could startle your teenager by saying to him, "Don't guttle your food!"

guttle – to eat greedily and voraciously (noun guttler – one who guttles; a glutton)
[from gut? from guzzle? Many of the word’s appearances are in the phrase guttling and guzzling.]

Recent quotes are available, but the older ones are so much more interesting.
September 12, 2007, 11:23
wordcrafter
fress – to eat a great deal (also, to eat quickly noisily). noun form: fresser

Definition taken from Leo Rosten (The New Joys of Yiddish), who reports that one of his correspondents tells of seeing a restaurant in Mexico City whose menu, under “Sandwiches,” read thus:
September 12, 2007, 11:25
BobHale
German has two verbs meaning "to eat" - essen and fressen. Essen is used for people and fressen is used for animals.


"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
September 12, 2007, 18:08
tinman
quote:
Originally posted by wordcrafter:
fress – to eat a great deal (also, to eat quickly noisily).

I ran across this word in the book Plain and Fancy by Joseph Stein and Will Glickman: "What they don't fress up, we'll give to the pigs."

Tinman
September 12, 2007, 18:30
zmježd
I've always loved fress. In German, as in Yiddish, there is a difference between essen and fressen. They are both translated as 'to eat', but the former is usually what humans do, while the latter is what animals do. Also, German Fotter, cognate with English fodder, is the food that an animal fresses. In Ligurian Italian, which my grandmother spoke with my father and uncles, there is a great verb sccieûppâ /ʃtʃø'pa/, 'to explode (from overeating)' which glosses Yiddish plotsn quite well.


Ceci n'est pas un seing.
September 13, 2007, 07:50
wordcrafter
We put two words together today because the overeating quotes concern U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt (served 1901-1909) and his vice president and successor, William Howard Taft. The former was a powerfully-built man of good appetite, but the latter, who weighed well over 300 pounds, dwarfed him.

One word uses the -cious ending, which Thoreau says is particularly strong.trencherman – a hearty eater
edacious – devouring food in great quantities; voraciousBonus word:
suppurate
– to form or discharge pus
September 13, 2007, 08:47
Robert Arvanitis
Always assumed "trencherman" meant "hungry like one who dug ditches all day."

Turns out it is only distantly related to that hole in the ground (from Word for the Day):

" Trencherman is from trencher, 'a wooden board or platter on which food is served or carved' (from Medieval French trencheoir, from Old French trenchier, 'to cut,' from Latin truncare, 'to lop off, to shorten by cutting') + man. It is related to trench, 'a hole cut into the ground.' "

So, the trencherman snuggles close to the dining board. Similar in concept to "parasite" or one who is near ("para") the wheat ("sito").


RJA
September 13, 2007, 19:17
Kalleh
I have seen many patients with suppurating wounds. However, I've surely not seen it used as in that quote. Not very appetizing!

The online OED only seemed to cite the pus-forming definition.

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September 14, 2007, 08:41
wordcrafter
horkslang: to gulp down hurriedly; to "snarf"
[origin: onomatopoeic?]

This term is relatively new. Though I’ve seen it more often defined as "to vomit", the meaning I give seems to be more in the mainstream culture, as indicated by the today’s quote.

I’ll present that quote in a different format, as brief video clip from a current movie. Wink (Those who lack audio can get the quote by painting over the text below, which I’ve typed in very-light color. But if you can play the clip, do so; you’ll find that much more entertaining.)
September 14, 2007, 10:23
Pierre
CONFUCIUS SAY: Man who hork DOWN food too fast, may have to hork it UP later. Also man who eat at restaurant have to hork up money to pay for meal, or do horking dishes!
Pierre
September 14, 2007, 19:31
Kalleh
Welcome, Pierre! We hope to see more of you here.
September 15, 2007, 01:15
tinman
I can't say I've ever heard of hork before. I wouldn't mind never hearing it again.

This site , A Historical Dictionary of American Slang, says hork, "To vomit," originated in the 1980s, and hork, to "Gulp, gobble, swallow whole," originated in the 2000s. The Urban Dictionary gives several definitions of the word. Apparently you can vote on the various definitions, as evidenced by the "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" symbols. Check out the other "hork" words, such as hork wad, hork-idge and horkachork.

Strangely enough, it's not found in the OED.

Tinman
September 15, 2007, 03:45
BobHale
quote:
Originally posted by tinman:
I can't say I've ever heard of hork before. I wouldn't mind never hearing it again.



We've talked about it before though.


"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
September 15, 2007, 09:36
wordcrafter
gourmandize – to overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneselfUsage note:The noun form gourmand is an ambiguous term: it can either mean an excessive eater (that is, a glutton), or an eater with discriminating taste (that is, a gourmet). So when you use that word you should take care to indicate which you mean. But the verb form gourmandize is unambiguous: it pertains only to gluttony.
September 15, 2007, 17:33
tinman
quote:
Originally posted by BobHale:
quote:
Originally posted by tinman:
I can't say I've ever heard of hork before. I wouldn't mind never hearing it again.



We've talked about it before though.


I guess I was sleeping that day.

Tinman
September 16, 2007, 09:31
wordcrafter
Today's word, an obscure one akin to "rape", has its root in the concept of plunder, pillage, and taking prey. But I'll give only the definitions that pertain to our theme of overeating.

raven; ravinverb: to devour voraciously (as in "preying upon"), or to have such an appetite: Beasts … ravening for blood and slaughter (noun: voracity; gluttony)

Bonus word:
trencher
– a wooden board or platter, for carving or serving food (We saw this a few days ago, when we presented 'trencherman'.)

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