We should end the year with two words relating to the holiday season and food consumption.
Bellycheer is an old sixteenth-century English word that means a happy belly. When you realize you have had a wonderful Christmas dinner and are full of Christmas food and drink, you have the satisfaction that only such overindulgence can bring.
“Martha looked on as her family leaned back from the table and rubbed their bellies with the satisfaction that only bellycheer can bring on at Christmas.”
“George sat by the fire and had to loosen his pants to accommodate the bellycheer from his Christmas meal.”
“My mother said even women experience bellycheer; they just conceal it better than men.”
Crapulence is the extension of the bellycheer to the following day. When you have too much bellycheer, you might wake up with crapulence. Now, it is not as bad as it sounds; crapulence means feeling overindulgence. It has a Latin origin that was adapted to English to mean having too much to eat or drink. It is also used to signify extreme drunkenness.
“I woke up in the bed the next morning as a wave of crapulence washed over me from last night’s dinner.”
“Sam’s sofa was so uncomfortable that I slept poorly and awakened to a bad back and crapulence from last night’s party.”
“Bill and Jodie’s reception dinner was so lavish that most guests woke up with a feeling of crapulence the next morning.”
Using these two words in a single sentence is not so hard because they both relate to food, consumption, and overindulgence.
“After indulging in the Christmas festivities bellycheer, he suffered from the inevitable crapulence that followed.”
“The Christmas bellycheer left the entire family in a delightful state of crapulence.”
“Despite the inevitable crapulence that followed, the overwhelming bellycheer at the family dinner was worth every indulgent bite.”
