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DEFINITION: v., To drop food on the floor, then pick it up and eat it, before anyone else can say "it's too dirty". n., A tasty treat which has been accidentally dropped, then quickly salvaged and savored.
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Recovereats
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: re-cov-er-eats
Sentence: When his bowl of cheeseballs were knocked onto the floor, Mel sprung into action and quickly began rescue and recovereats maneuvers so that he could continue to watch the game with his favorite snacks at his side.
Etymology: recovery: the act of regaining or restoring something lost + eats: articles of food; snacks
Germunch
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: jərmənch
Sentence: Billy*s mom is a germ-a-phobe. Her house is cleaner than a surgeon*s hands. When he went away to college Billy became the antithesis of of her. He would eat anything on a dare; worms, cockroaches, food off the bathroom floor. He extended the 5-second rule to the 5-minute rule. He would germunch just about anything just to get a reaction. Because of his reduced stature his friends often referred to him as the germunchkin.
Etymology: germ (a microorganism, esp. one that causes disease) + munch (eat (something) with a continuous and often audible action of the jaws)
Antipastogen
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: an/ti/pah/stoh/jen
Sentence: Antipasto off the plate, or antipastogen off the floor, it didn't bother Tommy. It was FOOD!
Etymology: antipasto + pathogen (bacteria)
Dedirt
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: duh-DURT
Sentence: Alex was not about to let the doughnut his clumsy date dropped go to waste, and he gobbled up the dedirt.
Etymology: dessert + dirt
Gravitidbits
Created by: MrDave2176
Pronunciation: grav-eh-tid-bits
Sentence: To Murray, just watching snacks drop inside a vending machine made his mouth water. But when food precipitasted to the floor, he could not resist the gravitidbit. Something about falling always improved the flavor. Precipitaste: To drop food on the floor, then pick it up and eat it, before anyone else can say "it's too dirty"
Etymology: Gravity + tidbit
Putrilapiglop
Created by: tehbeks
Pronunciation: pyoo treh lah peh glawp
Sentence: MMMMM... Putrilapiglop! I better dive fast before anyone else sees it! That's disgusting. Why does Ted always putrilapiglap everything that spills?
Etymology: putrid lap (i.e. in how dogs drink water) glop
Linoleyumyum
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: lin-OLE-ee-yum-yum
Sentence: Bart didn't subscribe to the '5 second rule', he considered anything that had been dropped on the floor by himself or others to be a delectable linoleyumyum however long it may have been laying there.
Etymology: Blend of the words 'linoleum' and 'yum yum'
Carpetdiet
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: Car-pay-di-et
Sentence: It was a matter of carpetdiet when Doug, upon dropping a piece of prosciutto on the floor, suddenly dropped to his knees to recover the morsel.
Etymology: carpe diem, carpet, diet
Lineoleyum
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: lin o lee yum
Sentence: Barry hated to waste food. He did not know why, but if it fell on the floor, it tasted a bit better. It was embarrassing to go anywhere with him, as he devoured this lineoleyum no matter who was watching...it was even more embarrassing when he did it at his wife's boss's parties!
Etymology: Linoleum (floor covering) & Yum (exclamation when something looks/tastes delicious)
Plibble
Created by: micvice
Pronunciation: PLIH-bul
Sentence: Marcel was very clumsy and a bit of a glutton, so naturally quite the plibbler.
Etymology: plop, nibble
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you again remistram! ~ James
mplsbohemian - 2007-10-11: 22:57:00
There are a LOT of good words today!
Yes lots of floordoeuvres for thought. Tasty too! Even if they are all full of antipastogens. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James