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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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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:
Could i have Bridget's phone number? - metrohumanx, 2008-08-11: 17:21:00
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How humble. - metrohumanx, 2008-08-12: 14:36:00
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Leguriate
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ləˈgjuɹiˌeɪt/
Sentence: Though the word "leguriate" technically refers to the physical pleasure found in fondling legumes, one can euphemistically leguriate any raw, dried food product.
Etymology: legume + luxuriate
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COMMENTS:
love it!! - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-28: 10:10:00
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Scurfle
Created by: Scattercat
Pronunciation: sker-ful
Sentence: The delibulous scurfle of the clatatat beans filled me with gleen.
Etymology: Sounds a bit happy and soothing (and owes a small amount to the 'scurf of yesterday' which so entranced Amelie, who helped to popularize this pasttime.)
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
Peasureseizure
Created by: Rhyme79
Pronunciation: peez-yer-seez-yer
Sentence: I had the most amazing peasureseizure at the health food place the other day. It was so good, I fainted and the checkout girl called an ambulance.
Etymology: A play on pleasure, minus the 'l'. Added seizure for some rhyming goodness.
Legulas
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
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:
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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Lentilmania
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: len-tell-maen-ee-ah
Sentence: Sally slowly felt the sprout induced lentilmania that she had waited so long for when she plunged her hand into the barrel of beans at Barney's Legume and dime.
Etymology: lentil, mania
Peagasm
Created by: maddyclo
Pronunciation: pea-gazem
Sentence: Regardless of the fact that it was a barrel of oats that I thrust my hand into at Richard's Whole Foods, I had a peagasm.
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by duchessella. Thank you duchessella! ~ James
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
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.
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!
Today's definition was suggested by duchessella. Thank you duchessella. ~ James