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Posted By: NRG "sufficiently surostified" - 02/01/11 05:58 PM
At the end of a meal my parents used the phrase, "I am sufficiently surostified! "to mean "I am full." I can't find the term surrostified (using all possible spellings) in a dictionary or on the internet. It was from the Irish side of the family, if that has anything to do with it. Here we have been saying it for all these years and it might be made up. Have you ever heard of it?

Just guessing at it, maybe sur = over, os = mouth + ify from facere = perform as in satisfy?
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: "sufficiently surostified" - 02/01/11 06:33 PM
Quite a word!
Welcome NRG
Posted By: tsuwm Re: "sufficiently surostified" - 02/01/11 06:34 PM
I think you may have it slightly contravivulated:

(this from Nov. 16, 2005..)

the worthless word for the day is: suffonsified

[perhaps a blend of sufficiency and fancified]
(also sophonsified, suffancified, suronsified, etc.)
used in phrases to politely refuse more food at
a meal: full

"The most common line seems to be, "My sufficiency
has been suffonsified and any more would be
superfluous." - Warren Clements, The Globe and Mail
(Toronto) Nov. 27, 2002

"After we've finished our hamburgers and fries she
turns to the boys and says brightly, "Are you
sufficiently sophonsified?" and they gape at her.
They are not the kind of boys who would have
napkin rings." - Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

Quinion's take:
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-suf1.htm


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yet another driveby poster?!
Posted By: Candy Re: "sufficiently surostified" - 02/04/11 08:19 AM
Originally Posted By: tsuwm


...yet another driveby poster?!


seems so....I wonder why they bother going through the process of becoming member to only post once!

BTW...you must have a terrific memory TS (to find those quotes).
Posted By: tsuwm Re: "sufficiently surostified" - 02/04/11 02:04 PM
>terrific memory

and it's just so disonsifying to have it go to waste!
< sniff >
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