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DEFINITION: n. The euphoria felt when sticking one's hand surreptitiously into a barrelful of rice, peas, or other legumes. v. To plunge your hand into a container of rice.

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Peasure

Created by: Megsee

Pronunciation: just like pleasure but without the L

Sentence: The man groaned with peasure as he wiggled his stubby fingers inside the red bean basket.

Etymology:

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Manoeuphoria

Created by: readerwriter

Pronunciation: mahn-o-u-for-e-a

Sentence: "We have a name for it," the doctor had said, "manoeuphoria." All her life Bridget had felt only a slight guilt and unease whenever she stuck her hand into containers of small, cool, round, but firm, objects. They were especially pleasurable on a hot summer's day. She couldn't stop herself. Her first indulgence had come in childhood when she would stick her hand--she always prefered her left--into the large jar of buttons in her grandmother's sewing room. Later, when she was older, she had done the same with the peas, rice and other legumes her parents stored in the storm cellar of their farmhouse in Kansas. Now that she was a famous actress in New York City, the gourmet jelly beans she kept in the half-barrel by her bedside didn't quite produce the same high, but she had her memories. It had been a long process describing her feelings to the doctor, but in her last session she had been able to tell him she knew what it was to be one with a waterfall.

Etymology: From manos, for hand; euphoria, for intense happiness

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COMMENTS:

metrohumanx Could i have Bridget's phone number? - metrohumanx, 2008-08-11: 17:21:00

metrohumanx No other authors in this group? How humble. - metrohumanx, 2008-08-12: 14:36:00

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Leguminous

Created by: daisy

Pronunciation: leg-u-min-us

Sentence: The feeling of barely between my toes is leguminous

Etymology:

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Micropelopitasticism

Created by: Paulefinch

Pronunciation: micro-pelo-pit-asti-sism

Sentence: MMMMMM, I felt pure micropelopitasticism when I shoved my entire arm into the barrel of rice at the back of the health-food store.

Etymology: micro+pelota+pit+fantasticism

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Nerveana

Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: nurv/anna

Sentence: Nerveana can be achieved while grocery shopping with the help of pearl barley

Etymology: nerve + nirvana

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Paradrice

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: para/dryce

Sentence: Slipping off to the market near work and dipping her fingers into the cool vat of silky rice was nothing short of paradrice.

Etymology: paradise + rice

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COMMENTS:

wild rice I assume? - galwaywegian, 2007-05-28: 06:13:00

wild and crazy - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-28: 09:11:00

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Legulas

ohwtepph

Created by: ohwtepph

Pronunciation: LEH - goo - las

Sentence: & Anne said to his voluptuously nerdy bestfriend who secretly has a crush on her, "Oooh, the legulas is indeed..." Anne paused and looked at Chris, "Let's go make out. I feel like you look like Orlando Bloom now."

Etymology: legumes [beans and other round thingies because I don't know how to correctly define this] + Legolas [IDK, but it was the best idea that came to my mind. XD]; his charm and arrow mastery is supposed to induce euphoria

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Graindiosity

Created by: jadenguy

Pronunciation: grain - dee - ah - city

Sentence: The stress of impending meetings and inane mission statements vanished in one fell swoop; the smooth soy ravaging her in sensational grandiosity.

Etymology: Grain + Grandiosity.

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COMMENTS:

I wanted to combine the word grand and grain, but it didn't seem to well. Graind. But grandiosity means, using synonyms loosely, feeling really great about not a whole lot, and grains because the things mentioned were granular. But granular and grand and/or grandiose didn't really work. Grand. Pretty sure I've seen that word before. Grandule...? No, no, graindiosity's fine. - jadenguy, 2007-05-28: 19:52:00

great - it encompasses all grains - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-29: 08:45:00

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Peaphoria

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: pēfôrēə

Sentence: Nothing is quite so exciting to Naomi as a trip to the wholesale market -- all those open bins of dried vegetables. She can plunge elbow-deep into peaphoria. Green or black-eyed, doesn\'t matter. Damn the health laws. This is fun.

Etymology: pea (a spherical green seed that is widely eaten as a vegetable) + euphoria (a feeling or state of intense excitement and happiness)

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Inpulsation

Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: in-poll-say-shun

Sentence: as the owner of a lentil store, my biggest peeve is with people who come in for some inpulsation and then leave without buying anything

Etymology: in,pulse[as in peas,beans etc], sensation, impulse, pulsate, npul, ulsa, satio

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COMMENTS:

petaj Is inpulsation caused by a need for a nitrogen fix? - petaj, 2007-05-28: 04:32:00

excellent - galwaywegian, 2007-05-28: 06:13:00

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-05-28: 00:01:00
Today's definition was suggested by duchessella. Thank you duchessella! ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-05-28: 00:15:00
The Stevenson0 gets this week's Verbotomy Cup and goes actstatic! Read about it in Verbotoweek.

ErWenn - 2007-05-28: 00:56:00
Rice is a legume?

rikboyee - 2007-05-28: 01:00:00
it has bean for a while now

petaj petaj - 2007-05-28: 04:38:00
If there is no pulse after a nitrogen fix, check for dry pellets or signs of pea.

Clayton - 2007-05-28: 04:55:00
Too funny. Peas keep it up. Apparently rice is of the family Poaceae, and legumes Fabaceae. They share the same division, Magnoliopsida, but not the same class or order, so they're not very closely related as far as I can tell. But my thumb isn't so green, either.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-05-28: 08:47:00
Thank you for the question and clarifications. I apologize for my loose conjugglation. I was merely trying to plant a seed (or even provide a barrelful of seeds) that would allow our verbotomists to leguritate in a little verbal lentitillation, and perhaps climax with a grammatical tactileguminosaeity. To encourage this kind of wild inpulsation, perhaps we should change the definition to read "... a barrelful of rice, legumes, seeds, candies, or any other dry pellet-shaped objects." ~ James

Clayton - 2007-05-28: 18:03:00
Why stop there? Let's include moist things, too, like baked beans, caviar, and goose liver.

scrabbelicious - 2008-08-11: 07:55:00
I'm so gleed, that's it!

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-12-09: 00:05:00
Today's definition was suggested by duchessella. Thank you duchessella. ~ James