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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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Legudaimonia
Created by: Discoveria
Pronunciation: leh-goo-die-moan-eah
Sentence: Susie was so overwhelmed with legudaimonia after sticking her hand into a bag of peas, that she started crying.
Etymology: legume + eudaimonia (Greek 'happiness or welfare')
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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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
No other authors in this group?
How humble. - metrohumanx, 2008-08-12: 14:36:00
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Peakle
Created by: w5lf9s
Pronunciation: pee-ckle
Sentence: Beth, tell me if anyone is looking. I've got to go for a quick peakle! It's too tempting .. Ooohhh!
Etymology: pea + tickle
Pealation
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: pee lay shun
Sentence: It had bean a long time since Peanelope Beanthere had run her hand through a barrel of peas, just to experience pealation. Harry Cotver, her co-worker at the Legumatorium Emporium could not understand why she never used a scoop when she did this. The other staff at the Store: Parquin Beans (he'd been a Navy bean in the War); Mushy Peas (he'd bean married to former employee Sweet Peas, but now they were Split-Peas; Kid Neebeans (a real Stringbean); Scarlet Runner-Bean (she was a real broad bean); Yenta Lentil; Goober Peas (he was a black-eyed pea and a pea nut) and Chili Beans (he came from Lima, Peru)...always used a scoop. When Harry asked Peaneleope about this habit of hers, she said it was a chickpea thing and made her feel closer to her own kind. One day, Peaneleope disappeared forever and it was rumoured that she had bean kidneyapped by aliens, to the Planet Garbanzo. Yes, Peanelope was now one of the Pod People!
Etymology: pea (legume, seed pod of a pea plant of family leguminosae) & elation (euphoria, extreme bliss,joy and exhilaration)
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COMMENTS:
Congrats on your yesterword, and WOW for today. I've always wondered if PENELOPE rhymed with ENVELOPE... - metrohumanx, 2008-08-11: 17:15:00
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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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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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Pextasy
Created by: pungineer
Pronunciation: pex/taz/C
Sentence: Bronwyn worked herself into a state of near pextasy even at the mere mention of a dried wholefoods scoop n save shop - but unfortunately her local had banned her for the ridiculously loud moaning noises she made whenever she shoved her scoop free mitts into the barrel of chick peas at the back...
Etymology: [dried]peas + sex + ecstasy [you've all done it...]
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COMMENTS:
Hahahaha. Like it! - metrohumanx, 2008-08-12: 22:06:00
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Leguphoria
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: legyu for ee ya
Sentence: When Missy passed a barrel of open soup ingredients, she always experienced a feeling of leguphoria. Hardly surprising, as she was only a human bean...
Etymology: Legume (the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils & Euphoria (exaggerated feeling of bliss, elation)
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
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