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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.
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Cutlerextremist
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kut ler ex tree mist
Sentence: Freddy was a cutlerextremist. He never used his fingers but only used cutlery to eat all his food. Mona his girlfriend could put up with a lot, but she drew the line when he brought his silverware to eat popcorn at the movie house!
Etymology: Cutlery (silverware, eating utensils) & Extremist (a person who holds extreme views)
Paralytidigitation
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.
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
Cutleery
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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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)
Silverwary
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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COMMENTS:
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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Utensify
Created by: Daneslarue
Pronunciation: Yoo-Ten-Siff-Aye
Sentence: I find it quite irritating when people utensify pieces of candy.
Etymology: From Utensil
Silverwaristocrat
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: sil ver wayr ISS toe crat
Sentence: He was a silverwaristocrat like his father before him. Not only was he born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he insisted on being fed with it as soon as he was offered solid food. His first sentence was, "Eww, no touch my food!"
Etymology: silverware + aristocrat
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COMMENTS:
Unforkettable! - Nosila, 2010-02-04: 23:54:00
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Incophalangist
Created by: deaninc
Pronunciation: in-ko-fo-lan-jest
Sentence: he's the incopholangist
Etymology: phalangy pertains to fingers, the prefix -co- refers to being against ones order, and -in- carries the negative
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