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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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Calixfoliation
Created by: younger
Pronunciation: CAL-iks-fole-e-a-shun
Sentence: California's residents often opt for a "natural" spa treatment over the expensive salon variety. Spending a little time in Cali's smog-filtered sunlight makes for a cheap and effective calixfoliation session.
Etymology: California + Exfoliation
Multitenutemperia
Created by: arandomperson97
Pronunciation: Mult-i-ten-u-tem-per
Sentence: person 1: my skin is peeling right off me! person 2: You have Multitenutemper then, go to the shade!
Etymology: multi- many tenu-stretched, thin (skin) temper-due season
Skinvigorate
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: skin-vig-or-ayt
Sentence: getting rid of my outer layer left me feeling skinvigorated
Etymology: skin, invigorate
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
Sloutting
Created by: frenchprof
Pronunciation: not unlike slutting but with slough and slut and ing
Sentence: Going sloutting again today?
Etymology: American English of tanning salons, slang. Comes from "slukt": "snaked of melingnoma"
Corpomalderm
Created by: joshb316
Pronunciation: corp-o-mil-der-m
Sentence: Because of his corpomalderm, Jorge went in for an appointment, and found out he had skin cancer.
Etymology: Corp:Body Mal:Bad Derm:Skin
Cuteickle
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: kew-tick-al
Sentence: Melanie went for a cuteicure. She wanted to get that fresh appeeling look of a cuteickle that her teenage daughter naturally had.
Etymology: cuticle + cute + ick
Sluffle
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: sləfəl
Sentence: If beauty is skin deep, Liz is up to her eyeballs in gorgeous. As she sluffles along through life, she does her best to make to a good first impression but often leaves a bigger impression when she departs. Unfortunately when she gets nervous, she sheds skin much faster than normal. She would have landed the job as the spokeslizard for Geico if she hadn*t shed 3 layers and interviewed looking pink.
Etymology: sluff (slough): shed + shuffle: walk by dragging one*s feet along or without lifting them fully from the ground
Grandtend
Created by: smstone0413
Pronunciation: Gr-and-tend
Sentence: The woman proceeded to grandtend the skin on her face.
Etymology: Grand- Great Tend- To stretch
Phengodermabrasion
Created by: muchiny
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Upon a long walk through the beach, she started feeling the phengodermabrasion all over the exposed skin.
Etymology: Phengo- from Greek for light, sunlight, daylight, splendor, luster derma- from Greek for skin abrasion- superficial damage to skin
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COMMENTS:
phengonomenal! - Nosila, 2010-01-25: 15:15:00
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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