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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
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Cutlerivore
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: kut-le-REE-voor
Sentence: When Bob's cobbers saw him hoe into his tucker - a hamburger with the lot -with the silverware, they sat there like stunned mullets. And Roxie gave Doc Howlong a tingle to come and see what was up with Bob. On being told that Bob may have a touch of the barcoo rot, Roxie chucked a wobbly, thinking that Bob was a goner about to tumble off the twig at any tick of the clock. But in the end, it was decided that Bob was simply a cutlerivore, and that Roxie's only real worry would be the "elliot ness".
Etymology: Blend of cutlery & vore: one who will touch and eat food only with cutlery. (not one who eats cutlery: consider philanderer!)
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COMMENTS:
Funny one OZ! - Scrumpy, 2007-10-09: 09:52:00
good one! - Jabberwocky, 2007-10-09: 15:13:00
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Hypercutlerize
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: hi per cut ler aiz
Sentence: It was always fun to nudge him because when Doug ate popcorn he tended to hypercutlerize and use a fork.
Etymology: hyper + cutlery
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COMMENTS:
forkenstein - Nosila, 2010-02-04: 23:55:00
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Mannanipulate
Created by: Scrumpy
Pronunciation: ma-nuh-nip-yuh layt
Sentence: Bill was mannanipulative with his food. He was utensilly compulsive and needed to have his food on a plate with dividers so his different foods couldn't come into contact with each other.
Etymology: manna + manipulate
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COMMENTS:
so if he ate a banana he would be bananamannanipulative - Jabberwocky, 2007-10-09: 15:12:00
Apart from being "utensilly," Bill seems to be a bit ueightsilly! Nice blend. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-10-09: 18:34:00
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Finigast
Created by: Nonverbal
Pronunciation: fini gast
Sentence:
Etymology: finicky gastronome
Implementill
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: im plem ent ill
Sentence: George's insistance on eating all his foods with a knife, spoon and/or fork was considered instrumentill by his friends. His phobia about not touching his food was especially painful to watch when he ate popcorn, chocolate bars and mixed nuts.
Etymology: Implement (utensil,piece of equipment used as a means to an effect)&Ill (sick;not well;unfavourable;with disapproval) - WordPlay on instrumental (serving or acting as a means or aid)
Putensillanimous
Created by: phonematode
Pronunciation: pyoo-tehn-suh-lan-uh-muhs
Sentence: When Elaine grabbed a fried mozarella stick off the sampler plate without using the fork Jerry had set on it, Jerry slapped her hand and squeeled like a small girl. "Jerry, you're such a putensillanimous little twit!" she replied before licking all his silverware.
Etymology: pusillanimous, utensil
Cutleridiculous
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kuht-luh-ree-dik-yuh-luhs
Sentence: Hugo has a problem with getting anything on his hands. He washes them at least 10 times a day, more often if he happens to touch something icky. When he eats he becomes cutleridiculous, never allowing any food to touch his hands.
Etymology: cutlery (utensils, as knives, forks, and spoons, used at the table for serving and eating food) ridiculous (stupid, funny)
Utensiliferation
Created by: egyptodd
Pronunciation: you-ten-sil-if-ehr-ay-shun
Sentence: Though it saves you from grease accidents when eating pizza, utensiliferation can cause arthritis and cramping.
Etymology: utensil + proliferation
Squeamdish
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: squeem/dish
Sentence: A squeamdish person will always use utensils while preparing or eating food. People who criticize this eating disorder are know as dishrags.
Etymology: squeamish + dish
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COMMENTS:
Your squeamdish person sounds like they might need utensive care. Excellent word! - Scrumpy, 2007-10-09: 09:59:00
Beware of dishrags: they'll "knife" you! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-10-09: 18:35:00
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Utenzealot
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
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram! ~ James
remistram - 2007-10-09: 09:59:00
I actually got the idea from a Seinfeld episode, the one where Elaine witnesses her boss Mr. Pitt eating a Snickers bar with a knife & fork.
I saw this in action on cruise ships with people who refused to eat from the buffet because all those dirty people" had touched the food.
I was thinking of using a chocolate bar in the comic, but then I remembered this girl from grade school who ate ants. Of course, she used her fingers. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James