Scoffing and inhaling food

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scoff

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so to scoff your food means to eat it

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really fast

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there's a slang word people use which

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would be to inhale

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your food maybe your friend ate that

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dinner really really fast you could say

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to them god you inhaled that

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to inhale is to to breathe in so it's

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like he's just breathing in and all the

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food is flying down

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into his mouth but uh if somebody is

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eating very slowly so the opposite of

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scoffing their face maybe you have a

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child who eats a bit slowly

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and generally we'll say this to a child

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who's eating slowly

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if we want them to eat their vegetables

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we might say

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come on eat up eat

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up meaning keep going

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eat eat eat it's like encouraging them

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to eat because

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you know you've noticed that they're not

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eating and we're encouraging them to eat

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more

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seconds ah seconds i love seconds so

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when you've finished your dinner

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one of my favorite things to do is to go

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and see if there are any

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seconds or if i can have any seconds

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which is basically when you go back up

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you take your food and you fill up your

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plate again and have a second serving

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we call it seconds difficult to

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pronounce this one seconds

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it's that schwa