- I need to stop looking at foodporn at night. I keep having dreams of delicious cakes.
Foodporn
noun; compounding of "food" and "porn"
Artistically arranged photos of tasty food, usually uploaded to social media to make the viewer hungry. Usually attractive because the pictured food is unobtainable for the viewer at the moment.
Etymology : Food from Old English foda "food, nourishment", from Proto-Germanic *fodon, from Latin pabulum "food, fodder". Porn, an clipping of pornography, from French pornographie, from Greek pornographos "depicting prostitutes", from PIE *per "to traffic in, to sell" + graphein "to write". When used together, porn doesn't have a sexual meaning, but instead refers to something desirable, and probably also refers to the act of watching alone.
Source : Internet, March 2011
Last modified: 25 November 2013