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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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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.)
Ricerotic
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: rīsirätik
Sentence: Julie loves the bulk bins at the local market, not because of the lower prices or the convenience of buying just what you need. She just loved to plunge her hand into the open barrel. It is almost ricerotic for her.
Etymology: rice (a swamp grass that is widely cultivated as a source of food) + erotic (of, relating to, or tending to arouse sexual desire or excitement) a bit like Rice-A-Roni
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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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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Lentitillation
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: len-tit-ill-ay-shun
Sentence: Dahlene has been lupining for some lentitillation for soy long that I'm masoor she'll go crazy next time we visit the Indian grocer.
Etymology: lentil + titillation
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COMMENTS:
Most impressive. - Clayton, 2007-05-28: 08:57:00
Holy crap. - jadenguy, 2007-05-28: 19:54:00
I'll take that as peasitive feedback. - petaj, 2007-06-01: 09:26:00
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Podjubie
Created by: guesser
Pronunciation: Pod + Jubie
Sentence: She enjoys the sensation of podjubie so much that she has gotten herself thrown out of every Grocery Store in town!
Etymology: Pod (seed pod) + Jubie (short for Jubilant)
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
Legumertion
Created by: diplogreeable
Pronunciation: Le-goo-mer-shun
Sentence: Joy couldn't resist the urge to indulge in the odd pleasure of legumertion as she passed the deep, open barrels of various legumes in the produce section, plunging her hand fully into the split peas.
Etymology: Legumes + Emertion
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by duchessella. Thank you duchessella! ~ James
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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