Conference thebay::joyoflex

    Liquidate me!
    

    Slake? Assuage?
    

    You could use "Refresh me," if used after "Feed me" (as in "food
    and refreshment."
    
    "Slake" would be correct.
    
    "Water" could be used (as in "watering the horse"), though I'd be
    uneasy if I was demanding milk that way instead of water.
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.

How about

	"Quench me!"

By the way, I can't think of "feed me" without thinking of the recent
moo-V "Little Shop of Horrors", thoroughly entertainly.

/Eric

It's interesting alongside this question to notice that we have:

	"I have quenched my thirst."

but no

	"I have ??? my hunger."

You could say "satisfied" or "satiated" but there's no word spcifically
meaning to satisfy one's hunger, as there is with thirst.

Funny true story:

	We have a foreigner eat dinner with us one night.  My mother
	asked if she'd like some more chicken.  She said "No thanks,
	I'm full of it!"

/Eric

    Re .7:
    
    On an allied subject, many's the time in literature and films I've
    heard people say, 
    
    "Eat hearty."
    
    But until I saw a Cecil B. Demille film (whose title I forgot;
    it was a western), I never heard anyone say, as the villian did
    to a  henchman,
    
    "Drink hearty."  [As the henchman was drinking, the villian shot
                      him in the back.]
    
    Nor have I heard it since. 
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.
    

    How about, "I have sated my hunger"?
    
    	Jon

    This reminds me of a sequence from a comic called STIG'S INFERNO,
    a very funny take-off on Dante, among other things. In this scene,
    a rather large demon is preparing to munch on Stig, who's trying
    to convince the demon that this isn't a very good idea:
    
    Stig: "Has it occurred to you that some people don't *want* to be
	   eaten?"
    
    Demon: "Really? Imagine, people not wanting to be eaten. They want
    	   to be *drunk*. It just doesn't make sense."
    
    --- jerry

Re:    sating hunger ?

	Is "sate" as related to hunger as "quench" is to thirst ?  Or
	is "sate" a general word meaning "to satisfy".

/Eric

  Re: .13

  Wait a second -- quench applies to many things other than thirst...

  JP

    From my tiny AH:
    
    sate -- 1. To satisfy completely or fully. 2. To indulge to excess;
    surfeit. [Prob. < OE sadian.]
    
    	Jon

    In Roget's Thesaurus, "quench" leads to:
    
         gratify, satisfy, sate, satiate; slake, appease, allay,
         assuage, quench; regale, feed, feast; do one's heart good,
         warm the cockles of the heart
         
    and "drink" leads to :
    
         ingest, eat, imbibe, drink; swallow, devour, ingurgitate;
         engulf, engorge; gulp, gulp down, swill, swill down, wolfe
         down, gobble
    
    and
    
         sorb, absorb, adsorb, chemisorb or chemosorb, assimilate,
         engross, digest, drink, imbibe, take up or in, drink up or
         in, slurp up, swill up; blot, blot up, soak up, sponge;
         osmose; infiltrate, filter in; soak in, seep in, percoloate
         in 
    
    and
         
         drink, drink in, imbibe, wet one's whistle [informal]; quaff,
         sip, sup, bib, swig [informal], swill or guzzle [both slang],
         pull [informal]; suck, suckle, suck in or up; drink off or
         up, toss of or down, drain the cup; wash down; toast, drink
         to, pledge; tipple, booze. 
         
    I tried "feed", hoping it would lead to something for which the liquid
    equivalent would be nearby, but the best I could find (not including
    the above) was: 

         provision, provender, cater, victual; feed; forage; fuel, gas, gas
         up, fill up, top off, coal, oil, bunker; purvey, sell.
    
    
    				-- edp 

    Re .7
    
    I have stilled my hunger ??
    

    .16 certainly "innundated" us !
    
    
    I believe the correct nomination is "slake!"
    
    	RMM
    
    
    
    

    re: .7, .17  Try this:
    
    My gastronomic satiety admonishes me that I have attained the ultimate
    state of deglutition consistant with dietetic integrity!

    re: .16
    
    
    
    BURP!!
    
    Excuse me, please.

    
    Whenever my backpacking partners say "hydrate me!," I have to fight
    the temptation to feed them lye.  The backpackers often use the
    expression, "gorp the hunger."   Gorp is a high-calorie mixture
    of various nuts, raisins, and M&Ms which is usually the main course
    for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and all snack breaks in between.
    

Yes, GORP stands for

	Good old raisins and Peanuts !

    One that Roget's Thesaurus omitted .... and a Shakespearean quotation,
    to boot:

    

    Stay me ... with flagons!

    
    R�: .7
    

    Re: .24
    
    One doesn't feed hunger anymore than one drinks thirst.  The statement
    in .7 is correct.  We can slake our thirst, but there is no
    corresponding word for hunger; the best we can do is satisfy or
    satiate it.
    
    Bernie

    Re .25:
    
    > One doesn't feed hunger anymore than one drinks thirst.
    
    One does not eat hunger any more than one drinks thirst.  It is
    entirely possible to feed a hunger.
    
    However, "feed" is still not the desire word because "quenched" implies
    not just drinking, but drinking until satisfied, whereas "feeding a
    hunger" does not imply the corresponding feeding until the hunger is
    gone.
    
    
    				-- edp 

    Re .25, .26:
    
    I suppose one can appease one's hunger.
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.
    

    But what if you don't like peas?
    
    --bonnie
    

    Give peas a chance.

    
    Re .29:  What are you?  Some sort of mouthpeas?
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.
    
    [Actually, I rather like peas.  Does this make me a peasnik?]

    
    "Is there any peas in Hungry...no, fish"

    Though I'm very fond of carrots, I advocate peasful coexistence.
    
    --bonnie
    

    In .17 I suggested to 'still' the hunger. My dictionary tells me
    it is a valid (though Old English) word.
    
    The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary has:

        	to assuage, allay  (an appetite, desire)
    
    

    Re: .26
    
    >>One doesn't feed hunger anymore than one drinks thirst.
    
    >One does not eat hunger any more than one drinks thirst.  It is
    entirely possible to feed a hunger.
    
    Yes.  Your analogy is more precise.
    
    I should have said that one doesn't feed a hunger any more than one
    _gives drink to_ a thirst.  I have a problem with feeding a hunger;
    we eat in order to satisfy a hunger, but I don't see how that
    constitutes _feeding_ the hunger.  We drink in order to satisfy
    a thirst (some of us, of course drink for other reasons), but is that 
    the same as giving drink _to_ a thirst?  The concept seems wrong.
    
    Bernie
    

    Re .34:
    
    American Heritage (boo, hiss) has for "feed":  "4. a. To minister to;
    gratify:  _fed their appetite for the morbid_".
    
    
    				-- edp

    MacDonaldize?

    Re .36:
    
    _That's_ sartisfying one's hunger?  Rather "Burger_Kingize." ;-)  
    
    Re "feeding" a hunger:
    
    "Feeding" is one of those ambiguous verbs.  "Feeding a fire" means
    making it bigger, stoking it, etc.  Therefore one meaning of "feeding"
    a hunger would be to make the person more hungry ("The pornographic
    film fed his hunger for having sex," doesn't mean that he wants
    to be celibate).
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.

    
    That's peas-izely my point !
    Carrot you see that ?

    R�: .27
    
           A fire requires fuel just like we do.
    
Ed
        

    Eat every carrot and pea on your plate!
    

    Re: .35
    
    I suppose we can _minister to_ a hunger, but in the sense of feeding...
    it isn't the hunger we feed, but the hungry organism - just as it
    isn't the thirst itself we give drink to, but the thirsty organism.
    
    
    Bernie

    How about "quell."  One of its meanings is "to put an end to," so
    one could in that sense be said to quell one's hunger.
    
    Bernie
    

    
    Frenchfrize your hunger...
    

    .33 is correct -- the verb is "to still" one's hunger.
    
    You will find it used in a lot of older English literature, including,
    if memory serves, the King James Bible.
    
    --bonnie
    

    The original question in .0 never seemed to be answered.
    
    I saw a lot of people feed each other to the flames though.
    And feed flames to each other.
    
    How did the conversation die down?  They didn't feed water
    to the fire; they ---<what>--- water to it?
    
    Hmm, I guess a hose can feed water to it but, um, hmmm.

quaff?

angela