ingurgitate

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The Word of the Day for October 7 is:

ingurgitate   \in-GUR-juh-tayt\   verb
     : to swallow greedily or in large quantities : guzzle 

Example sentence: 
     The kids were so hungry after the ball game that they ingurgitated their 
fries before I even finished squeezing the ketchup on mine. 

Did you know? 
     Most people are familiar with "regurgitate" as a fancy synonym for "throw 
up," but far fewer know of its rarer antonym "ingurgitate." It's a word as 
likely to turn up in a spelling bee as in a conversation, but it does see 
occasional use, both literal (as in "ingurgitating red wine") and figurative 
(as in "ingurgitating artwork"). "Regurgitate" and "ingurgitate" (as well as 
"gurgitate," an even rarer synonym of "ingurgitate," and "gorge," meaning "to 
eat greedily") can be ultimately traced back to the Latin word for "whirlpool," 
which is "gurges."




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