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'Why are you licking the wrapper?'

DEFINITION: v. tr., To secretly snap up and gobble down a small bit of food left on a dish, wrapping or pot. n., The small bits of tasty food, like melted cheese or veggies, that stick to food wrapping.

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Exscrapolate

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: ecks - skrap - oh - layt

Sentence: Though disgusting to those around her, one of Miranda's favorite habits was to exscrapolate bits of food from wrappers, bowls, even other peoples plates, leaving those items clean as a whistle and crumb free.

Etymology: Play on the word extrapolate, meaning to deal with food scraps of all kinds.

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COMMENTS:

you could even stretch it to extrapoplate - nice word - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-28: 13:06:00

Exscrambled eggs... - Nosila, 2008-08-29: 00:34:00

Very nice - OZZIEBOB, 2008-08-30: 18:34:00

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Lefthoover

Created by: phonematode

Pronunciation: left-hoo-vur

Sentence: Once the guests had departed, he quickly lefthoovered the gooey pizza bits from their plates.

Etymology: left-overs, Hoover (vaccuum)

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Syruptitous

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: sur - up - tish - us

Sentence: Mollie felt very syruptitious as she held the plate close to her face and licked up all the syrup after breakfast. She hoped that no one realized what she was really doing.

Etymology: syrup (sweet topping used for pancakes, waffles and in candy) + surreptitious (done or acquired in secret, operating by stealth)

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Love it...sweet! - Nosila, 2011-06-09: 18:14:00

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Garbagelicker

Created by: josje

Pronunciation: garbage licker

Sentence: you are a garbage licker

Etymology: licking garbage

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horrible - josje, 2007-10-05: 16:21:00

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Crumbpull

MrDave2176

Created by: MrDave2176

Pronunciation: CRUM-pull

Sentence: Matt was a notorious crumbpuller who picked at plates as he cleaned them, but it wasn't until he began to eat the crumbpullings from the Arby's wrapper that his friends began to think he might have a problem.

Etymology: Crumb (the bits of food that fall off) and pull (as in pick or tug on)

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COMMENTS:

MrDave2176 actually this works really well as a verb to erWinn's crumbplunder. - MrDave2176, 2007-09-27: 10:18:00

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Gnawsh

Created by: kabloozie

Pronunciation: nosh

Sentence: Linda could not resist the urge to gnawsh the remnants of hardened cheese, petrified pepperoni and green pepper gnawshables off the Lean Pocket cardboard crisper.

Etymology: Gnaw: to wear away through persistant nibbling. Nosh: to snack or ruminate

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Cuiseensy

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: (n) kwiz-een-see

Sentence: Liz could not resist the lure of cheese-coated vlittles and cuiseensy, even if it was on the molickular level.

Etymology: cuisine, weensy

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Great word Purp! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-27: 09:52:00

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Yickaholicism

Created by: brimuth

Pronunciation: yik-a-hoal-isi-zim

Sentence: Jane was an incurable yickaholic, eating the yucky congealed stuff from any wrapper she could find.

Etymology:

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Scramp

vixphilia

Created by: vixphilia

Pronunciation: s-CRAMP

Sentence: v.: He always scramps the cake tray when the party is over. n.: My new diet consists of giving the food to my boyfriend and eating the scramps.

Etymology: scrap (tiny bit) + Cram (eat)

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Demomlish

Created by: astorey

Pronunciation: dee-mom--lish

Sentence: Amy never understood her mother's tendency to demomlish every scrap of food left on everyone's plate, including, one time, a spit-up-and-chewed-out tomato, to the horror of Amy and her siblings. Now, having kids of her own, Amy recognizes that being the human garbage disposal is part of the genetic coding of motherhood, and finds herself eaten goldfish saturated in apple juice for reasons she cannot entirely comprehend.

Etymology: Demolish combined with mom.

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metrohumanx Yessss- I concur. - metrohumanx, 2008-08-29: 07:42:00

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-09-27: 00:01:00
Today's definition was suggested by Scrumpy. Thank you Scrumpy! ~ James

metrohumanx metrohumanx - 2008-08-28: 03:04:00
Wow! That sentence packs a PUNCH!

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2011-06-09: 00:17:00
Today's definition was suggested by Scrumpy. Thank you Scrumpy. ~ James