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DEFINITION: v., To shed one's skin in an effort to appear younger or healthier. n. The little bits peeling skin caused by overexposure to direct sunlight.
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Skinnanga
Created by: leomar
Pronunciation: es-kin-nah-nga
Sentence: skinnanga came from the language of bisaya, but the frirst 2 sylables came from english language, which means SKIN, and nah-nga (nanga) means CARELESS or tinanga (teh-nah-nga)
Etymology:
Dermockracy
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: der mok ra see
Sentence: Chris sunbathed too hard and always ended up burning and shedding away her skin. She felt this dermockracy made her appear more youthful by having the sun exfoliate for her. Instead she was becoming melabnormal.
Etymology: Derma (skin) & Mock (fool, copy, imitate) and WordPlay on Democracy (the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group)
Helimalskinian
Created by: ysledd
Pronunciation: Heli-mal-skin-ian
Sentence: Because he didn't wear sunblock, he became a helimalskinian with blisters and dead skin covering his face.
Etymology: Heli: sun mal: bad skin ian: one connected with
Dermabairnsion
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: durma/bearn/shun
Sentence: The new medical procedure dermabairnsion ensures skin as smooth as a baby's bottom.
Etymology: dermabrasion + bairn (baby)
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COMMENTS:
Derma & bairn: great word element blend. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-17: 18:25:00
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Sexapeel
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: secks a peeeeel
Sentence: The unfortunate thing was that while the sexapeel method made his bits look younger, they also made them so painful as to preclude anyone from touching them, which sort of defeated the purpose.
Etymology: peel, sex appeal
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COMMENTS:
Good one! It made me laugh! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-17: 09:59:00
good one Galway - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-17: 11:11:00
All is not sex that apeels! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-17: 18:31:00
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Huskiderm
Created by: Jenna
Pronunciation: huhsk-e-durm
Sentence: My mother went to the Spa for a HUSKIDERM, as she felt it give her a new glow. Two days after being burnt to a crisp by the sun, Sally was leaving bits of HUSKIDERM everywhere.
Etymology: Husk-Epidermis
Extremefoliate
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: ex-treem-fall-ee-ate
Sentence: The extremefoliator at the spa recommended that Jill should extremefoliate her skin monthly to retain that just boiled look.
Etymology: extreme + exfoliate
Diskintegration
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: dih + skin + te + gray + shun
Sentence: Through the new process of Diskintegration (tm) you can shed years off your face, or least several layers of skin!
Etymology: disintegration + skin
Scorpidermals
Created by: ericsimmons39
Pronunciation: Score-peh-durm-ulls
Sentence: When i woke up in the morning after the long day at the beach, my pillow was laden with scorpidermals and Puerto Rican businessmen.
Etymology: Scorched + Epidermis
Benedermacural
Created by: danibriggs
Pronunciation: ben-A-durm-a-cure-ul
Sentence: My mother thinks by getting a benedermacural she will look twenty years younger and find a new boyfriend. She is so wrong.
Etymology: bene- good derma-skin cur-care
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by MrDave2176, and inspired by the fact that I got a little sunburn yesterday -- even though it's September. Thank you MrDave2176! ~ James
rikboyee - 2007-09-17: 04:01:00
its a new one!! oh happy day!!!!
Today's definition was suggested by MrDave2176. Thank you MrDave2176. ~ James