abligurition

ab·lig·u·rit·ion
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UK/əˌblɪɡjʊˈɹɪʃən/US/əˌblɪɡ(j)ʊˈɹɪʃən/

noun

Prodigal expenditure on food.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounabligurition (uncountable)
  1. archaicrareuncountableProdigal expenditure on food.

    Deipnosophy, not abligurition, makes the aristologist.

    1999, Bonnie Johnson, Wordworks: Exploring Language Play, Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum Resources, →ISBN, page 103
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    So soon as a rogation for a benison by the concionator, transpired, fourchettes, and all implements for the transportation of prog from the table to oral apertures, were movent and sonorific. Such abligurition; such lycanthropic edacity, lurcation, ingurgitation and gulosity; such omnivorousness and pantophagy; and such a mutation and avolation of comestibles, had never fallen under my vision in any antecedent part of my sublunary entity. Truly, anamnestic of [Lord] Byron’s “dura illia messorum!”

    1906, J. E. L. Seneker, “Letter V”, in Thomas Stone, editor, Frontier Experience: Or Epistolary Sesquipedalian Lexiphanicism from the Occident, 102nd anniversary edition, published 2008, →ISBN, page 68

    “Your dad says it’s because I remember things better than other people on account of how I pay very close attention and care very much.” / “Why?” / “Because it is important to know things. For an example, I just recently learned that Roman Emperor Vitellius once ate one thousand oysters in one day, which is a very impressive act of abligurition,” he said, using a word he felt sure Katherine wouldn’t know.

    2006, John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, London: Penguin Books, published 2012, →ISBN, page 46

    [W]hen you squander your money on treats and comfort foods, you are engaging in abligurition (excessive spending on food and drink)

    2007, Barbara Ann Kipfer, “abligurition”, in Word Nerd: More Than 17,000 Fascinating Facts about Words, Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks, →ISBN, page 3, column 1

Origin

  1. Late Latinabligurrītiō, abligurītiō“act of devouring; act of spending in feasting”
  2. Englishabligurition

PIE word *h₂epó Learned borrowing from Late Latin abligurrītiō, abligurītiō (“act of devouring; act of spending in feasting”), from abligurriō, abliguriō (“to lick away; to spend or waste indulgently, squander”) + -tiō (suffix forming abstract nouns from verbs); from ab- (“away; away from; from”) + ligurriō, liguriō (“to lick up; to feast or feed upon; to be dainty or fond of luxuries”).

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Translations

Finnish ylenmääräinen ruoan tuhlaaminen
  • ylenmääräinen ruoan tuhlaaminenprodigal expenditure on food

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