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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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Peaphoria
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: pēfôrēə
Sentence: Nothing is quite so exciting to Naomi as a trip to the wholesale market -- all those open bins of dried vegetables. She can plunge elbow-deep into peaphoria. Green or black-eyed, doesn\'t matter. Damn the health laws. This is fun.
Etymology: pea (a spherical green seed that is widely eaten as a vegetable) + euphoria (a feeling or state of intense excitement and happiness)
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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Paradrice
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: pare/a/drice
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:
...until they caught her. - metrohumanx, 2008-08-11: 17:19:00
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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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Seedlation
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: seed-lay-shun
Sentence: A feeling of seedlation came over me as I groped my way through the barrel of corn.
Etymology: seed, elation
Innerpeas
Created by: serendipity9000
Pronunciation: in-ner-pees
Sentence: They tried to talk her out of it, but Sally always insisted on visiting the legume corner in the bulk food isle on her endless quest for innerpeas
Etymology: inner + peas (pun on peace)
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COMMENTS:
funny - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-30: 12:07:00
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Inpulse
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: inn puhl sss
Sentence: she would inpulse impulsively
Etymology: impulse in pulse
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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Tactileguminosaeity
Created by: Clayton
Pronunciation: tak-TIL-i-gyu-me-no-SAHY-i-tee
Sentence: Virna was overcome by a sudden tactileguminosaeity, finding herself inexplicably aroused by the alfalfa shoots.
Etymology: tactility + leguminosae
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