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Two days after the first regulations of the Food Administration were announced, to hooverize appeared spontaneously in scores of newspapers, and a week later it was employed without any visible sense of its novelty in the debates of Congress and had taken on a respectability equal to that of to bryanize, to fletcherize and to oslerize.
Chapter 6. Tendencies in American. 3. Processes of Word-Formation Henry Louis 1921
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The big Webster has hooverize, which it defines as "to economize especially in the use of food."
sionnach commented on the word hooverize
to abstain voluntarily from certain foods on certain days of the week (e.g. pork on Thursday, wheat on Monday).
August 6, 2008
bilby commented on the word hooverize
I never eat vacuum cleaners on Wednesdays.
August 6, 2008
reesetee commented on the word hooverize
I thought it meant "to eat everything in sight"?
August 6, 2008