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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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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

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Fragmints

artr

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)

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Illickit

Created by: bookowl

Pronunciation: ill/i/kit

Sentence: She took illikit pleasure in washing the dishes with her tongue.

Etymology: illicit + lick

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Hidbit

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: hīdbit

Sentence: Marcy loves to stop at her favorite fast-food joint for lunch. The food itself is fine but the best part is finding a hidbit, a little chunk of burger or cheese stuck to the wrapper. She has been known to ingest a scrap of paper just to get these morsels.

Etymology: hid (put or keep out of sight) + tidbit (a small piece of tasty food)

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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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Scrapticle

Created by: cfinleyca

Pronunciation: skrap-ti-kuhl

Sentence: Man, you really got every scrapticle off that cheese-paper. You gave that plate a scrapticlectomy, I don't even have to put it in the dishwasher.

Etymology: Scrap: a small piece or portion; + particle:a minute portion, piece, fragment, or amount; a tiny or very small bit

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Lapdansk

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: lap/dance/k

Sentence: Sue excitedly checked her wedding registry daily to see what new pieces of Dansk china had been purchased. She would wait until after the ceremony to divulge her secret pleasure - to lapdansk

Etymology: lap(lick or wash) + dansk (famous chinaware)+ lapdance

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COMMENTS:

metrohumanx WOW! That's SOME combo....VERY unique approach. - metrohumanx, 2008-08-29: 08:23:00

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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)

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Disortanize

kathleen

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

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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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COMMENTS:

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