DEFINITION: v., To use a knife and fork to eat foods like hamburgers, pizza, or pigeon wings, which are customarily consumed using one’s hands. n., A person who is afraid to eat food touched by human hands.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Cutlerylitism: /kut ler eel eet izm/ Reginald Sheffield 111 was a snob and a devotee of cutlerylitism. He believed very strongly that humans must continue to prove their superiority to other creatures by continuing to show off their use of utensils while consuming nutrition. Ice cream cones, chocolate bars, sandwiches, hot dogs, even hamburgers were always eaten using knives, spoons and forks. The only advantage was that your hands never got sticky but the main disadvantages of such a belief were that it took ten times longer to eat anything (picture a big bunch of grapes or cherries) and one looked like a real twit! Etymology: Cutlery (silverware; utensils used to prepare and eat food) & Elitism (1.The belief that certain persons or members of certain classes or groups deserve favored treatment by virtue of their perceived superiority, as in intellect, social status, or financial resources;a.The sense of entitlement enjoyed by such a group or class). Created by: Nosila.

Utenzealot: /You tense a lot ?/ Barry would fall into almost rapturous convulsions when he saw someone eating food with their hands and (gasp) not on a plate. I believed blindly in the superiority of cutlery in not just a hygienic sense, but a moral one too. Anxiety over not having appropriate implements forced him to keep an emergency eating kit in his glove compartment. He was quite the utenzealot. Etymology: Utensil, Zealot Created by: emdeejay.

Fiddledfoodphobia: /fid-dled-food-pho-bia/ Amy’s two afflictions, repulskin and fiddledfoodphobia drove her boyfirend crazy. She couldn’t eat at a restaurant unless she visited the kitchen to ensure all the cooks were wearing rubber gloves.
Etymology: fiddled with + food + phobia
Created by: Stevenson0.

Fingerprude: /fing-er-prood/ Everyone at the bar stared at the fingerprude who asked for cutlery to eat her buffalo wings, celery and dip. “I just did my hair, nails and makeup and I don’t want to look silly,” she told them. Etymology: wordplay on finger food– prude: a person excessively concerned about propriety or decorum Created by: mrskellyscl.

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DEFINITION: n., The fear of eating the skins of fruits, vegetables, or small animals. v., To worry about saving one’s skin while chewing on a rind, peel, or pelt.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Repulskin: /ri-puhl-skin / Jenny has suffered from the dreaded phobia of repulskin since early childhood. She can’t eat apples, grapes, nectarines, or especially fuzzy peaches, or any other fruits unless all the skin is completely peeled off.
Etymology: REPULSKIN – noun – from REPULSION (distaste, repugnance, or aversion by the thought, or presence of something) + SKIN (the external covering of an animal body, fruit, or vegetable)
Created by: Stevenson0.

Dermaffright: /der-ma-fright/ When she was a small child, Sue had a dermaffright when a clown slipped on a banana peel in front of her at the circus. Her brother, always looking for an opportunity to torment his little sister, would chase her around the house with banana skins, orange skins or anything else that came from a fruit or vegetable. After several years of therapy she came to the conclusion that it was the clown she was afraid of, not the skin, and now she can enjoy fruit again, although not bananas yet because she developed a fear of monkeys after seeing a Discovery Channel special. Etymology: derma: skin (greek-dermis) + affright: sudden terror Created by: mrskellyscl.

Huskfright: /husk-fry-t/ Nooooooo, I just can’t bear the thought of accidentally getting corn silk in my teeth. It’s a bad case of huskfright Etymology: husk (outer covering) + fright Created by: petaj.

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Nosila, 2010-02-03: 10:46:00
corny…but cute

Skinedible: /skinedəbəl/ Ruby is afraid of any food that has an exterior that is different than its interior. She sees it as skinedible. To her, even skinadvertent skingestion of skin is skinappropriate. It gives her skindigestion. She won*t even drink hot chocolate that has started to cool. Etymology: skin (the thin layer of tissue forming the natural outer covering of the body of a person or animal) + inedible (not fit to be eaten) Created by: artr.

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mrskellyscl, 2010-02-03: 06:39:00
good one!

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DEFINITION: v., To imply that person is usually unhelpful when asking for their assistance. n., An unwilling, unproductive and uninhibitedly useless helper.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Assistcant: /uh-sist-kant/ Because of family politics and pressures, I had to hire my useless, lazy, out-of-work again cousin as my assistcant.

Etymology: assistant + can’t Created by: Stevenson0.

Sluggest: /slug-jest/ At first Nan quietly sluggested that Ron may want to get off the couch and help clean the apartment. When he didn’t move, she threw him, his skateboard and his 6 pack out the door. Etymology: suggest: to imply or offer for consideration + slug: a lazy, slothful person Created by: mrskellyscl.

Berationship: /birāshənship/ Since his layoff from the shoe string factory Rodger*s berationship with Judy has beteriorated. His new job seems to be laying on the sofa besmirching the name of Velcro. Her new job is to bewhittle on his already-weakened self-esteem with her sharp tongue. Etymology: berate: scold or criticize someone angrily + relationship (the way in which two or more concepts, objects, or people are connected, or the state of being connected) Created by: artr.

Hindraide: /hin-drayed/ Despite an excellent pay packet, the hindraide avoided all tasks that involved raising his heart rate. Etymology: hindrance + aide Created by: petaj.

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DEFINITION: n., A person who exudes confidence and a strong offensive odor. v., To be blithely yet resolutely unaware of one’s own odors.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Pongfident: /pong fidd ent/ His pongfidence was craptivating. Etymology: confident, pong Created by: galwaywegian.

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Nosila, 2010-02-01: 18:01:00
pongilicious!

Incogniscent: /in-cog-ni-sent/ Jeff seemed totally incogniscent of how odorous he was. He believed that the girls thought he was adorable; unfortunately, he was only odorable. Etymology: incognizant: to lack knowledge of or to be unaware or conscious of + scent: distinctive odor Created by: mrskellyscl.

Abscentminded: /ab scent mind ed/ Nobody doubted the sweat Jim was putting into his new health kick. Indeed, they could smell it from one end of the office to the other. He was an abscentminded sole Etymology: absentminded, punned as scent. I’ve forgotten precisely what it means Created by: emdeejay.

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petaj, 2010-02-02: 07:13:00
I love what you’ve done with this… um oh, never mind.

Odordacious: /oh-der-dey-shuhs/ Her odordacious boss shows up for work every day direct from the gym and doesn’t change his workout clothes all day. This odordaciousness exudes not only a strong business sense, but an employee nonsense.

Etymology: odor + audacious (extremely bold, or daring)
Created by: Stevenson0.

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DEFINITION: v., To seek out old acquaintances even though you never really knew them that well, or liked them very much, in the first place. n. An old and unwanted friend who has suddenly reappeared.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Myfacefriend: /my-face-frend/ It was a sad day when Greg Arious realised that he’d gone way too far online networking. He had 656 contacts, most of whom were myfacefriends. It was time unfriend them. Etymology: Myspace & Facebook social networking sites where people collect “friends” and renew acquaintances with folks they haven’t seen or heard for years. Created by: petaj.

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Nosila, 2010-01-29: 10:39:00
How does one unfriend them??

Dejadupe: /deja-dupe/ Joe was a victim and total loser in high school and fifteen years has passed. He discovered Face-Book and began seeking out and contacting “old friendships and acquaintances” only to find he was dejaduping and renewing old hostilities toward himself.

Etymology: DEJADUPE – verb – from DEJA VU (an impression of having seen, or experienced something before) + DUPE (a person who is easily deceived, or victimized)
Created by: Stevenson0.

Lackquaintance: /lak kwayn tans/ When Cyndi went to her high school reunion, she still dressed in her best 80’s attire. Of course everyone else had dressed in modern day fashions, including the guy she always had a crush on…Seymour Modes. Seymour was now a Magazine Editor and tres moderne! As she later told her geeky friends who were too scared to go to the reunion, she and Seymour had a relationship whereby they were each’s lackquaintance. As the night and free booze wore on, they found a cozy corner to re-lackquaint themselves. Luckily it worked out for them. They are now an item and she writes a great retro column for his magazine and he dresses more and more with an eighties influence. Their acquaintenceship no longer lacks anything! Etymology: Lack ( the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; be without) & Acquaintance (a relationship less intimate than friendship;personal knowledge or information about someone or something)

Created by: Nosila.

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galwaywegian, 2010-01-29: 08:08:00
heh

Mingleberry: /min gull berreeeee/ these reunions were always the same, the good looking ones were either insufferable show offs or drunkards, leaving the desperate and the mingleberries. Etymology: mingle, as in social interaction, dingleberry as in a hard piece of poo hanging onto a butt cheek. Created by: galwaywegian.

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petaj, 2010-01-29: 05:38:00
mmm, i have a picture in my mind

Nosila, 2010-01-29: 10:38:00
You certainly get to the bottom of the issue!

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