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'Aren't you supposed to use a scoop?'

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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Inpulse

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: inn puhlllllssss

Sentence: her inpulse was to get inpulses

Etymology: impulse, in pulse,

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Nerveana

Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: nurv/anna

Sentence: Nerveana can be achieved while grocery shopping with the help of pearl barley

Etymology: nerve + nirvana

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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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metrohumanx 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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Legumelation

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: leh-goom-e-LAY-shun

Sentence: Whenever Heather passed the open bins of peas, beans and lentils she could not resist the temptation to burrow into them in anticipation of the wonderful legumelation it always provided her.

Etymology: Blend of the words 'legume' (n. the fruit or seed of plants of the legume family (as peas or beans) and 'elation' (n. pathological euphoria)

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Gleedipity

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: glee-DIP-ee-tee

Sentence: Sarah was a obsessive compulsive dipper, whose gleedipity was the bane of shopkeeepers everywhere.

Etymology: GLEE: open delight or pleasure; exultant joy; exultation. DIP: 1. to put the hand down into a liquid or a container, esp. in order to remove something (often fol. by in or into)DIP 2. Sl. to pickpocket, a pickpocket: ie: to "dip" your hand surreptitiously into someone pocket. ITY: state or condition, and with SERENDIPITY in mind

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metrohumanx Inspirational OCD. Good one, O-bob! - metrohumanx, 2008-08-11: 17:12:00

gleepidity doo dah - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-11: 19:40:00

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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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Flipamoly

Created by: cloclopops

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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')

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Peaphoria

Robologicon

Created by: Robologicon

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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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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