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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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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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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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Sensipintoism

Created by: texmom

Pronunciation: sin sah pin toe isem

Sentence: Dipping her hand into the pinto beans, she closed her eyes and sighed

Etymology: sensi - sensation pinto - the bean ism - makes it an action

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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)

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Circumpodstasy

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: circum/pod/stasy

Sentence: Wiggling her hand around deep in the barrel of split peas was a sensation that shifted her mind into the ultimate state of circumpodstacy.

Etymology: circum + pod + ecstasy

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Inpulse

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: inn puhl sss

Sentence: she would inpulse impulsively

Etymology: impulse in pulse

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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.)

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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

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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

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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

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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