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shemomedjamo

შემომეჭამაshem-oh-meh-JAH-moh[ʃɛmɔmɛˈtʃʼama]

'I accidentally ate the whole thing' — cheerful overeating

Closest in English: overeating, overindulgence, gluttony. None of them covers it.

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The story

Georgian has a preverb, shemo-, that folds 'unintentionally' into a verb, so a full confession fits in one word: I ate the whole thing, and I never meant to. It gets said at the supra, the feast where a third helping is hard to dodge. In English it flattens to overeating.

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  1. Which language is it from?Georgian
  2. What does it roughly say?I ate it all without meaning to
  3. Where would you hear it?At a supra, the Georgian feast table
  4. What does it mean?Eating past full because it tastes too good

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