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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.)
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
Granubilation
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: gran-yoo-bihl-AY-shuhn
Sentence: Alex's therapist suggested a routine of submerging his arms in rice--the granubilation to counteract his otherwise complete lack of personality.
Etymology: granule + jubilation
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COMMENTS:
hints of a grand jubilation too - petaj, 2007-05-29: 05:29:00
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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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Inpulse
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: inn puhlllllssss
Sentence: her inpulse was to get inpulses
Etymology: impulse, in pulse,
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
Ecstapea
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: EX-tah-pee
Sentence: Barbara is no longer allowed in the "bulk foods" section of the co-op, after she ran amok overdosing on ecstapea.
Etymology: ecstasy, pea
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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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