Verboticisms

Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: sil-ver-wair-ee

Sentence: i knew when he brought a knife and fork to pizza hut that he must be quite silverwary

Etymology: silverware, wary

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I especially like this one because in a way, it's similar to mine (cutleery). - Osomatic, 2007-10-09: 14:23:00

Sounds like he's a bit of silvertail to me! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-10-09: 18:38:00

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Created by: emdeejay

Pronunciation: You tense a lot ?

Sentence: 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

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Created by: ajnemajrje

Pronunciation: Hands-Free-Ter

Sentence: I never knew John was a Handsfreater until i saw him eat a choclate bar with a knife and fork.

Etymology: Contraction of Hands Free Eater

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: Steri-luh-fobe

Sentence: Overly concerned about germs on his food, Jerome became a steriliphobe

Etymology: Sterile - phobia

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ænəˈsoʊʃḷˌzṃ/

Sentence: Etymologically, "anasocialism" refers to any social norm or etiquette used in the wrong situation, but it is strongly associated the Society for Creative Anasocialism, and so it is rarely used to describe anything but the use of high-class table manners for eating low-class food.

Etymology: ana- + social + -ism

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Created by: FayeWord

Pronunciation: jerm-o-wear-y

Sentence:

Etymology:

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Created by: MrDave2176

Pronunciation: para-lit-a-dij-eh-TAY-shun

Sentence: Peter's paralytidigitation was nearly debilitating. Were it not for his utensilization he would not be able to feed himself. Now all he had to do was to get over his creeping fear of the machines that prepared his food. utensilization = using utensils to eat

Etymology: Paralyize + digit + -ation. I first encountered this watching people eat from the buffet on cruise ships.

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: yew-ten-sil-EYE-tis

Sentence: Webster has an odd fixation his friends have labled utensilitis, wherein he feels compelled to use utensils to eat all manner of food to avoid eating anything touched by human hands, even his own.

Etymology: Blend of 'utensil' and the suffix 'itis' (humorous - Used to form the names of various fictitious afflictions or diseases)

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Created by: Discoveria

Pronunciation: KUTT-lurr

Sentence: Richard was such a cutler that he once tried to eat popcorn with a knife and fork when we went to the cinema.

Etymology: cutlery - y, sounds like butler

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: cut + leer + ee

Sentence: Even though "cutleery" is an adjective, it can be used to describe someone who uses a knife and fork to eat hamburgers, pizza or &etc.

Etymology: cutlery + leery

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COMMENTS:

so many good words today - Jabberwocky, 2007-10-09: 16:20:00

I not sure if he'll be able to cut the mustard! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-10-09: 18:31:00

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