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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread "sufficiently surostified" #196873 02/01/2011 5:58 PM Joined: Feb 2011 Posts: 1 NRG stranger NRG stranger Joined: Feb 2011 Posts: 1 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? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: "sufficiently surostified" NRG #196874 02/01/2011 6:33 PM Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,971 Likes: 3 Land of the Flat Water LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,971 Likes: 3 Land of the Flat Water Quite a word! Welcome NRG ----please, draw me a sheep---- Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: "sufficiently surostified" NRG #196875 02/01/2011 6:34 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass 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?! Last edited by tsuwm; 02/01/2011 6:55 PM. Reason: or do you prefer drive-by? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: "sufficiently surostified" tsuwm #196975 02/04/2011 8:19 AM Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 1,706 down under Candy Pooh-Bah Candy Pooh-Bah Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 1,706 down under 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). Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: "sufficiently surostified" Candy #196985 02/04/2011 2:04 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass >terrific memory and it's just so disonsifying to have it go to waste! < sniff > Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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