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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.
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Shunappealing
Created by: emdeejay
Pronunciation: shun a peeling
Sentence: Animal or vegetable, Christine just could not bring herself to consume the epidermis of her convestibles. I mean really! Consider where it has been! She found it very shunappealing.
Etymology: shun - to avoid. unappealing - offputting. peeling - (possibly) discarded skin of fruit/vegetable
Skinedible
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: skinedəbəl
Sentence: 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)
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COMMENTS:
good one! - mrskellyscl, 2010-02-03: 06:39:00
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Peelugnance
Created by: vmalcolm
Pronunciation: /pi:lʌgnəns/
Sentence: As John brought the peel nearer, Anna started to feel a complete feeling of peelugnance running through her body...
Etymology: PEELUGNANCE. From Peel (the skin or rind of certain fruits and vegetables) + Repugnance (extreme dislike or aversion)
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COMMENTS:
That would be likely to make her feel peelugnacious. - Mustang, 2008-09-08: 22:23:00
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Revoldermis
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Rev-ol-dur-miss
Sentence: Mary,s mum had always made her eat the skins of her baked potatoes even thogh she couldn't bear them as she found them dry and tasteless. Now that she had left home she no longer had to suffer revoldermis as she took great delight in leaving the skins on the side of her plate without having her mum breathing down her neck.
Etymology: Revolting + Dermis( the thick layer of skin below the epidermis) = Revoldermis
Integumentophobia
Created by: maryamwebster
Pronunciation: integ-u-men-toe-FO-bee-uh
Sentence: "Don't put a whole aardvark Beatrice's plate - she had terrible integumentophobia."
Etymology: Integument, meaning external skin and phobia, meaning fear of.
Repulskin
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: ri/puhl/skin
Sentence: 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)
Rindophobia
Created by: Scrumpy
Pronunciation: rind-o-foh-be-a
Sentence: Tim was such a rindophobic that he accused me of being Hannibal Lecter for trying to serve him potato skins.
Etymology: rind + ooohhhhh! + phobia
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COMMENTS:
Straight and clear. I tried the medical approach, but didn't really like the result: "chrotophobia" (chroto-Gk:skin)& "Phloephobia" Phloe-Gk: bark, rind, peel) - OZZIEBOB, 2007-10-08: 18:55:00
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Repulskin
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: ri/puhl/skin
Sentence: Amy has sufferd 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: repulsion + skin
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COMMENTS:
I would not be at all surprised to find that Amy actually existed. I haven't gone down that road personally, but I could easily see someone developing a strong aversion like that. - ErWenn, 2007-10-08: 10:56:00
They do exist: a former workmate had an extreme fastidiousness about the apple and pear skins. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-10-08: 18:33:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James