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Appetite vs Suffonsify - What's the difference?

appetite | suffonsify |

As a noun appetite

is desire for, or relish of, food or drink; hunger.

As a verb suffonsify is

(canada|informal|uncommon) to satisfy or satiate, particularly the appetite.

appetite

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Desire for, or relish of, food or drink; hunger.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
  • , chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite . There is something humiliating about it.}}
  • Any strong desire; an eagerness or longing.
  • * (Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)
  • If God had given to eagles an appetite to swim.
  • * (1800-1859)
  • To gratify the vulgar appetite for the marvelous.
  • The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind.
  • * (Richard Hooker) (1554-1600)
  • The object of appetite is whatsoever sensible good may be wished for; the object of will is that good which reason does lead us to seek.
  • A taste, preference.
  • Quotations

    * 1904 , (Arthur Conan Doyle) in (The Adventure of Black Peter) *: And I return with an excellent appetite . There can be no question, my dear Watson, of the value of exercise before breakfast. But I am prepared to bet that you will not guess the form that my exercise has taken.

    Synonyms

    (checksyns) * craving, longing, desire, appetency, passion

    Derived terms

    () * appetitive * appetizer * appetizing * appetizingly

    suffonsify

    English

    Alternative forms

    * sophonsify

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (Canada, informal, uncommon) To satisfy or satiate, particularly the appetite.
  • * 1953 , , Always The Young Strangers , Harcourt Brace (1953), ISBN 978-0156047654, page 243:
  • Toward the end of a dinner of prime roast beef, baked potato, salad, apple pie, and coffee, Sam Barlow would ask, "Well, young man, do you think you have had sufficient to suffonsify ?"