monophagy

๐Ÿ“– Definitions

noun

1. The eating of only one kind of food.

2. The act of eating alone.

๐Ÿ’ฌ Usage Examples

โ€œI feel your pain, but monophagy isnโ€™t a diet that anyone is recommending. ... Mike Roman, from Hackensack, New Jersey, says he has eaten a plain cheese pizza for dinner every night for the past 37 years, since he was four.โ€ Thatโ€™s Monophagous: the Woman Who Drinks Nothing but Pepsi and Has Done for the Past 64 Years; The Guardian (London, UK); Oct 16, 2018. โ€œMonophagy makes a man melancholy and unsocial. ...
If a man dines alone, and has a good dinner, how can he praise it properly if he does not praise it on the spot.โ€ George Webbe Dasent; Three to One, Vol. 2; Chapman and Hall; 1872.
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