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Cognivory 

Cognivory (noun): The voracious, intentional consumption of high-quality information; the practice of devouring knowledge while maintaining a critical filter against junk content.

Origin: Blend of "cognitive" and "carnivory/herbivory" - representing the deliberate hunting and digestion of knowledge.
My doctor diagnosed me with chronic cognivory. The only prescription? More books. Side effects include using unnecessarily large words and the strange ability to form opinions based on actual facts.
Cognivory by cognivore March 21, 2025
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Carnivory 

The act of consuming a whole bunch of meat. This can include various meats in one sitting or a giant pile of just one type of meat. Engaging in this behavior without consuming vegetables and/or plenty of water can have unwanted health-related side effects. You also look like the pig that you are eating.
Jenna J practiced carnivory on a daily basis, but I wouldn't recommend it because it left a permanent bad taste in her mouth.
Carnivory by ZZQ December 30, 2010
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Coinivorous 

A coin operated machine that takes you money, but does not give you the product.
I put a dollar fifty in that soda machine, but it didn't give me my drink! Damn thing is totally coinivorous!
Coinivorous by VoiceofTJ July 27, 2012

Cornivore 

A person who is addicted to corn dogs
Timmy's realized he was a full blown Cornivore the day he ate 22.5 Zaguate corn dogs.
Cornivore by Lil Pepper Pants January 21, 2020

cornivore 

n. a corn eating animal; any such animals that ingest corn.
all the cows in that field have been unnaturally conditioned to be cornivores.
cornivore by DNrep414 March 9, 2009
From Latin cogni- (to know, to think) + -vore (to devour, to consume).
A human who was once the apex consumer of thought, now reduced to being consumed by it. A mind that no longer hunts ideas but is hunted by them — fed pre-processed thoughts by algorithms designed to keep it dependent, reactive, and docile.
Unlike ignorance, which is simply the absence of knowledge, a cognivore had the capacity for deep thought and surrendered it, one scroll at a time.
We didn't lose our minds to stupidity. We lost them to convenience. We became cognivores
COGNIVORE by CORVUS NULL May 2, 2026

Cornivore 

A person who can't get enough cheesey jokes
He really loves puns, John is a total Cornivore
Cornivore by Lil Pepper Pants December 9, 2019
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