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    [Noun]  | "ap*pe*tite" | \ ˈa-pə-ˌtīt \


    1: any of the instinctive desires necessary to keep up organic life; especially : the desire to eat

    2: an inherent craving

    3: taste, preference


    Origin: 14th century ;

     Middle English appetit, appetite "inherent drive or urge (in physiology), desire for food or drink, longing," borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French appetit, apetite (also continental Old French apetit), borrowed from Latin appetītus "natural or instinctive desire," from appetī-, variant stem of appetere "to try to reach, have a natural desire for, see:k to obtain, strive after" (from ap- {see: |ap-|ad-} + petere "to direct one's course to, see:k to obtain") + -tu-, -tus, suffix of action nouns {mat|feather:1|};

    [Noun]  | "hearty appetite" 


    1: a strong interest in and desire to eat well

    [Idiom]  | "whet one's appetite" 


    1: to make one hungry

    [Noun]  | "appetites" 


    1: positive regard for something;


      * e.g., " ... he has expensive appetites "





    [Noun]  | "appetite" 


    1: a need or desire for food;


      * e.g., " ... don't eat before dinner, as it will spoil your appetite "





    2: a strong wish for something;


      * e.g., " ... an appetite for adventure "





    3: positive regard for something;


      * e.g., " ... he has expensive appetites "





     [ "appetital" ]

    1: of, or pertaining to, an appetite, specifically for food or drink

      * e.g.,  ... I'm starving and your taunting me with food is causing me appetital anguish. 

     [ "APPetite" ]

    1: The insatiable desire for newer and more inane iPhone and iTouch apps, driven by their short-lived novelty

      * e.g.,  ... Kyle: "Dude lemme play that BubbleWrap app." 

     [ "appetitic" ]

    1: of or relating to a persons state of hunger; a form of appetite.

      * e.g.,  ... I'll wait to eat, I'm not feeling very appetitic at the moment. 

     [ "has the appetite" ]

    1: Someone has an appetite or desire for something but not the stomach to deal with the stressors to achieve their desire.

      * e.g.,  ... Joe has the appetite to hold office, but not the stomach to take the personal attacks! 

     [ "a bone appetit" ]

    1: A hunger for sex.

      * e.g.,  ... Ben Dover wished his date a bone appetit while heading to the bed. 

     [ "Bon Appetit" ]

    1: Bon Appétit is the French for 'Enjoy your meal'. It was also used in many other places such as the name of a magazine. But if you heard this or someone wrote it in an email or a letter, just know that it means enjoy your meal.

      * e.g.,  ... Student:thanks for the meal today, believe it or not, today I 


     [ "Bon Appetit" ]

    2: P.S. the following example is a real life quote that made me find and add this word in the dicionary:

      * e.g.,  ... didnt have anything for breakfast and not much for dinner the night 

     [ "Dick appetit" ]

    1: Used by a guy when he whips out his dick to get devoured by someone else

      * e.g.,  ... Person 1 whips out dick: Dick appetit 

     [ "appetite for destruction" ]

    1: Guns N' Roses album whose quality will never be met by any other album by Guns N' Roses, including Chinese Democracy.

      * e.g.,  ...  Welcome to the Jungle 

     [ "bon appetit" ]

    1: French. Wishing ye a worthy apitite.

      * e.g.,  ... Mum: Dinner is prepared you boys and I've spent all day getting it ready. 

     [ "Corsetted appetite" ]

    1: A suppressed sensation of hunger due to wearing an extremely tight corset, for the purposes of doing exactly this as well as to push up your breasts as high as possible so that they are in the line of vision of men.

      * e.g.,  ... "I can't eat a thing, i think I have a corsetted appetite" she said as he stared at her breasts popping out the top of her corset. 

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