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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.
Verboticisms
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Qtlicious
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: cue/tee/lish/uhs
Sentence: Jenny always volunteered to clear the dinner dishes and in the privacy of the kitchen she found everyone's leftovers qtlicious.
Etymology: QTLICIOUS - from QT (stealthily, secretly, on the quiet) + DELICIOUS (highly pleasing to the senses, especially to taste)
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COMMENTS:
Verrrrry clever, O-bob! - metrohumanx, 2008-08-28: 03:07:00
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Fragmints
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: frag-mint
Sentence: Allie doesn't usually like mints. They are too intense for her taste. What she does like though are fragmints, the small bits that stick to the cellophane wrapper.
Etymology: fragment (an odd piece, bit, or scrap) + mint (any of various flavored hard candies packaged as a roll of small round wafers)
Somorsel
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: som mor sel
Sentence: Graham Cracker was mortified when he took his girlfriend, Hershey, to the local hospital. It seems she could not resist the last somorsel of gooey marshmallow cooked on their hibachi out in the woods. Too bad she could not wait until the grill had cooled a bit more...ouch!
Etymology: Some more (in addition to) & Morsel (a small amount of solid food; a mouthful) & Smore's (camping treat of graham cracker, chocolate and marshmallow sandwich melted over a campfire)
Lapitizers
Created by: lumina
Pronunciation: lap/i/tize/ers
Sentence: Saturday night was the last straw for Ed. Grabbing a bite to eat out in public with June was just too humiliating. He had overlooked the time that ripped open the Cheetos bags (hers AND his) at the bus stop to lick the cheese. He ignored the time she grabbed everyone's utensils at the company picnic making sure no condiment or sugary glaze went to waste. But when she moistened her fingers and then started dabbing at his pant legs for lapitizers in front of his parents, he was as Jerry Seinfeld said in one of the many classic episodes, "Off the project!"
Etymology: lap and appetizers
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COMMENTS:
Wow, Lumina....that was vividly disturbing....I like it. - metrohumanx, 2008-08-29: 08:17:00
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Disortanize
Created by: kathleen
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Having been a closet plataphile for years, Linda could not resist the urge to disortanize the dinner dishes as a tribute to Alex's skill in the kitchen
Etymology: prefix dis- + ort then verbified
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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COMMENTS:
Love it...sweet! - Nosila, 2011-06-09: 18:14:00
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Plastlick
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: plast/lik
Sentence: Her very strict diet only allowed her to plastlick so everyone saved their used sandwich wrappers for her.
Etymology: plastic + lick
Morselmunch
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Mor-sul mun-ch
Sentence: Having taken her three children swimming, Sarah decided to make pizza and chips for the hungry brood. When it was ready she suddenly had an overwhelming desire to morselmunch the melted bits of cheese and tomato that had stuck to the wrapper. Of course she didn't let the kids see this, after all she didn't want them to grow up with bad habits!
Etymology: Morsel( a small piece of food) ORIGIN French 'little bite' + Munch( to eat enthusiastically) = Morselmunch
Uslurp
Created by: ScrabbledEgg
Pronunciation: yoo-SLURP
Sentence: He eyed Tiny's cheesyfriedsamplerplate greedily, knowing it was only a matter of time before he uslurped it.
Etymology: usurp (take over or occupy without right as in usurp a neighbor's land or possessions...or food scraps!) + slurp (ingest, forcefully, hurriedly, perhaps even with loud sucking noises)
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COMMENTS:
Great word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-27: 20:43:00
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Nibblenobble
Created by: wordslikevenom
Pronunciation: Nibb-all-knob-all
Sentence: Judy knew that soaking the cat's bowl was the easy part. Nibblenobbling some of the dried meat off the side whilst Nigel looked for the TV remote was the real challenge.
Etymology: Nibble - to eat something by taking a lot of small bites. Nobble - to get hold of; grab; steal; filch
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Scrumpy. Thank you Scrumpy! ~ James
Wow! That sentence packs a PUNCH!
Today's definition was suggested by Scrumpy. Thank you Scrumpy. ~ James