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What are some forgotten or little used words related to eating or drinking?

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Bags O’ Mystery
Sausages. Nuff said

Bellytimber
Food

Bever
A snack

Bibulous
Related to or a fancy for alcoholic drinks

Bouffage
A spectacular feast

Carousal
A crazed party with much drinking

Cibarious
Food-related

Collation
Feel like you can’t get through a day of fasting? This is the name given to the light meal – not lunch, not dinner – permitted during some fasts

Craunch
To cranch. Or crunch

Deglutition
The act of swallowing

Drench
A medicinal – or poisonous! – drink

Epulation
Feasting. Taking part in a banquet

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Gormandize
To plough in and eat like a starving giant

Guttler
To waste no time in utterly stuffing yourself with food

Junket
An over the top, fun-filled banquet

Kickshaw
A lavish food dish built for show

Linnard
The last person at the table to finish their food

Mandicate
To chew or eat

Muncheon
A drink at noon

Nacket
Lunch

Orf Chump
Not hungry

Pabulum
Food. Most often in a digestible form

Peg
A drink

Prog
As a noun – food. As a verb, one can also prog or forage for something to eat

Spreadation
A particularly impressive offering of food

Sup
A sip

Tiffin
A light lunch

Waffle Frolic
Why should 18^th and 19^th Century diners have all the fun? Waffle party anyone?

Yule-Hole
Let’s hope there is a looser hole on this belt, ready to accommodate a post holiday-meal belly

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Header: Jacob Lawrence. This is Harlem. 1943

Image #2: Detail from Jan Brueghel the Elder. The Senses of Hearing, Touch and Taste. 1618