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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?
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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
[emPHAsis added] ___ yet another driveby poster?!
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...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).
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>terrific memory
and it's just so disonsifying to have it go to waste! < sniff >
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