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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
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Repeelant
Created by: astorey
Pronunciation: ree-peel-ant
Sentence: Nadia could still see her father picking the skin off a baked chicken, slurping it into his mouth and smacking his lips. Ew. While Nadia tried to blame her repeelant attitude on her father alone, she did, at times, acknowledge her own role. In a three-month stint as a server at TGI Fridays, Nadia served enough Loaded Potato Skins (tm) to make her repeelant complete and irreversible.
Etymology: Repellant combined with peel.
Dermingestiphobia
Created by: Daneslarue
Pronunciation: Derm-In-Jest-I-fo-Bee-A
Sentence: I suffer from acute dermingestiphobia; banana peels have been known to send me cowering into the corner.
Etymology: Derm - Skin Ingest - Consume Phobia - Fear
Dermaghast
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: Der-MA-ghast
Sentence: When Bob developed a picaderm for chunks of cobia skin, Roxie chundered cobiaphobically. And, soon, her dermaghast was not confined only to cobia; for she peelreeled at the sight of peaches, shellshaked at the soupcon of shrimp and couldn't shed the dread of dehusking. Dermaghast and despondent, it was clear that she was dermsquirming almost pandermically.
Etymology: 1. Derm: skin & aghast; to fear, dread 2.Cobia (cho-Bi-ah): a tropical food & game food fish. 3.Chunder: (Aust slang): to vomit.
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COMMENTS:
Ah, the classic Verbotomy technique for overcoming Verbotomist's block of flooding your example sentence with an entire suite of related words. - ErWenn, 2007-10-08: 10:58:00
like a dark Dr. Zeus - Jabberwocky, 2007-10-09: 12:12:00
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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
Rindawfulous
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: rynd of ful us
Sentence: Jackie lived in morbid fear of accidentally eating part of an apple peel, orange rind or other fruit covering skin. She thought of doing so made her feel rindawfulous.
Etymology: Rind (peel,skin) & Awful (causing fear or dread or terror) & WordPlay on Rhinocerous
Disskinbobulated
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: dis-skin-bob-yu-lay-ted
Sentence: the date was going well until he bought out some grapes that he had neglected to peel, and she suddenly felt completely disskinbobulated
Etymology: skin, discombobulated
Antipithy
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: an tip pith ee
Sentence: Olive may have found him peachy, but the touch of his fuzz filled her with antipithy
Etymology: antipathy, pith
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COMMENTS:
:) - Nosila, 2011-06-20: 18:37:00
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Abomidermy
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: a-bom-uh-DER-mee
Sentence: Bob had created such a long litany of words for his abomidermy, such as eskinchewy, dreaddruff, dermaghast, and sloughthroe etc., that he spent the whole day trying to find ways "to save his own skin."
Etymology: Blend of ABOMINATE: hate, detest, loathe, find repugnant and DERM: (skin). ESKINCHEWY (skin; eschew; chewy.)
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COMMENTS:
funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-09-09: 05:59:00
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Dermaversion
Created by: DrWebsterIII
Pronunciation: 'durm a vur zhun
Sentence: Jenny Dole had long had her serious condition; dermaversion, ever since Bob would force her to eat not only the fruits, but all their skins entirely!
Etymology: derma: skin + aversion: a fear of, scared
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COMMENTS:
THIS DEFINITION WAS A DIFFICULT STRUGGLE CAUSE IT WAS SO MORBID!!:( AND WHO IS VOTING SO MUCH IT'S OFF THE CHARTS
- DrWebsterIII, 2012-11-09: 05:15:00
i'm glad with the voting enthusiasts
- DrWebsterIII, 2012-11-09: 05:37:00
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Circumskin
Created by: wordslikevenom
Pronunciation: Sir-cum-skin
Sentence: Time and time again, Quasimodo had been advised to circumskin the Ugli fruit. Alas, he did not know what 'fruit' meant.
Etymology: circumnavigate - to proceed completely around. Skin - the natural outer layer which covers a person, animal, fruit, etc.
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COMMENTS:
:) - Nosila, 2011-06-20: 18:37:00
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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