Verboticisms

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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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: rem in ant

Sentence: When Sal spotted Emily licking cheese off wrappers again, he knew she was displaying her reminant mode. Like cattle and antelope that enjoy their food over and over, so did she. It would have been less embarrassing for him in McDonald's if she had just cleaned off her own wrappers...

Etymology: Remnant (a small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists)& Ruminant (any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments) & Ruminate(chew the cuds or deeply reflect upon something)

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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

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: ecks-scrap-oh-LAY-shun

Sentence: Eloise has the disgusting habit of exscrapolation wherein she scrapes and licks bits of food from wrappers, bowls, even other peoples plates, leaving those items clean as a whistle.

Etymology: Play on the word extrapolation. Meaning the consumption of scraps of food.

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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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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: Tid-bit-U-late

Sentence: Bob was a foodfreak with a postprandial pica for pinuscule pickings, And when no-one was looking, he tidbitulated on salami's peppercorn granules, the eyes of emmentaler, and modigobs of mushroom stalks. However, it's true and he did admitted it that, at times, he pondered the maxim: tell me what you eat and I'll tell you what you are!

Etymology: Tidbit:a small morsel of food & ul+ate: action (often repeated)& late & ate also, by chance, in there. Noun: modigob; blend of modicum & gob (a mouthful)

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COMMENTS:

I like this one. It suggests a certain fastidiousness to the whole process which makes it a little more civilised and socially acceptable. - Nettle, 2007-09-27: 09:46:00

Great word OZ! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-27: 10:04:00

tasty tongue twister - it's making me hungry - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-27: 11:35:00

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Created by: DrWebsterIII

Pronunciation: 'slī - hôg

Sentence: Any chance she could, Edna would slyhog whatever was on her plate, wrapper, sleeve, it didn't matter!

Etymology: sly (cunning sneaky tricky) + hog ( to act like an extreme piggy)

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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

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Created by: Frank

Pronunciation: gUber smooching

Sentence: Stop Goobersmoothcing, get your own bag!

Etymology: goobers,chocolate covered peanut and smootching- stealing the last one or stealing one from another's goober stash

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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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COMMENTS:

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

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