Author: James Gang

DEFINITION: v., To eat a strictly regulated diet in order to compensate for a complete lack of control when it comes to drinking. n., A smoker and drinker who becomes a vegan in order to “reverse the damage”.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Artichoker: /Arti-cho-ker/ Lucinda fumbled around the bottom of her handbag for a matchbox, gasping for a light. Striking the match she lit the end of the celery stick drawing a deep drag from it. The uncontrollable hacking that accompanied being an artichoker must surely have it’s benefits? Etymology: Created by: wordslikevenom.

Faddict: /fad dikt/ Beth was a faddict of any new diet that captured her imagination. She truly believed that eating vegan or other extreme diets would offset her dependence on smokes and drink. She would have had better luck on the vice cream diet, if there was such a thing! Etymology: Fad (an interest followed with exaggerated zeal) & Addict (someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance; abrupt deprivation of the substance produces withdrawal symptoms)
Created by: Nosila.

Dietchotomy: /dīetkätəmē/ Though Jim decided to ”clean up” what he was eating he found it impossible to give up cigarettes. It created quite a dietchotomy in his life. Etymology: diet (a special course of food to which one restricts oneself) + dichotomy (a division or contrast between two things that are or are represented as being opposed or entirely different) Created by: artr.

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DEFINITION: v., To use a knife and fork to eat foods like hamburgers, pizza, or pigeon wings, which are customarily consumed using one’s hands. n., A person who is afraid to eat food touched by human hands.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Cutlerextremist: /kut ler ex tree mist/ Freddy was a cutlerextremist. He never used his fingers but only used cutlery to eat all his food. Mona his girlfriend could put up with a lot, but she drew the line when he brought his silverware to eat popcorn at the movie house! Etymology: Cutlery (silverware, eating utensils) & Extremist (a person who holds extreme views)
Created by: Nosila.

Digitrauma: /dijitroumə/ Wendell suffers digitrauma whenever he imagines people in the restaurant kitchen touching his food. The advertising slogan for KFC gives him a major case of the heebie-jeebies. He can’t even bring himself to say it out loud. Etymology: digit (a finger) + trauma (a deeply distressing or disturbing experience) Created by: artr.

Spoonosh: /Spoo-nosh/ Timothy cast his eye across the back of the packet and down past the ingredients. “Boil-in-the-bag Pizza. Suitable for Spoonoshers” Etymology: Spoon – Cutlery used to scoop food. Nosh – food (sl.) Created by: wordslikevenom.

Fretiquette: /fret ik eht/ His fretiquette derived from a summer camp where as a child he saw a cook with the personal hygiene of an epidemic. Etymology: fret etiquette Created by: galwaywegian.

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DEFINITION: n., The fear of eating the skins of fruits, vegetables, or small animals. v., To worry about saving one’s skin while chewing on a rind, peel, or pelt.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Circumskin: /Sir-cum-skin/ Time and time again, Quasimodo had been advised to circumskin the Ugli fruit. Alas, he did not know what ‘fruit’ meant. Etymology: circumnavigate – to proceed completely around. Skin – the natural outer layer which covers a person, animal, fruit, etc. Created by: wordslikevenom.

Comments on Circumskin:

Nosila, 2011-06-20: 18:37:00
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Peelophobia: /peel o fobe eya/ Jackie had a tremendous case of peelophobia. She could not bare to look at an orange rind, apple parings or a banana peel, never mind eat them. She could not even eat in a steakhouse, lest they serve potato skins. They did not appeel to her at all. Etymology: Peel (the rind of a fruit or vegetable) & POhobia (Unnatural fear;an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things) Created by: Nosila.

Antipithy: /an tip pith ee/ Olive may have found him peachy, but the touch of his fuzz filled her with antipithy Etymology: antipathy, pith Created by: galwaywegian.

Comments on Antipithy:

Nosila, 2011-06-20: 18:37:00
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Trepodation: /trepädāshən/ Jan’s mom has some odd ideas about food. Just because she shopped at Whole Foods she thought you had to eat foods ”as is”. Peels, skins, rinds, and pods are not food in Jan’s opinion. It always left her with a sense of trepodation when Mom started to fix a meal. Last night? corn on the cob still in the husk. ”No shucking way”. Etymology: trepidation (a feeling of fear or agitation about something that may happen) + pod (an elongated seed vessel of a leguminous plant such as the pea) Created by: artr.

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DEFINITION: v., To imply that person is usually unhelpful when asking for their assistance. n., An unwilling, unproductive and uninhibitedly useless helper.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Goferloafer: /gōfərlōfər/ When Harry hired his nephew as an office assistant, he thought he would get some much-needed help. What he got was a goferloafer. Where Harry saw somebody to run errands, the nephew saw the insides of his eyelids. Etymology: gofer (a person who runs errands) + loafer (a person who idles time away) Created by: artr.

Noughty: /Nought-tee/ Sid’s noughtiness left Kelly wondering whether she’d kissed the wrong toad. Etymology: Nought – Nothing. Created by: wordslikevenom.

Comments on Noughty:

wordslikevenom, 2011-06-17: 06:37:00
Well, it was news to me!

wordslikevenom, 2011-06-17: 06:47:00
Wow! Super alchololicbrainfade day.

Slelper: /slel-per/ “George, I asked you to give me a hand with this but you’re just sitting there. You such a slelper!” Etymology: sl(ack)+ (h)elper Created by: Inniscor.

Disbeerchanted: /dis-beer-chan-ted/ Ray was so disbeerchanted with Liz’s demands that he couldn’t move. Etymology: Added beer in the middle of disenchanted after taking off the ‘en’ using only dis and chanted with beer in the middle- Disappointed or disillusioned and doesn’t care because the beer has numbed that part of your brain. Created by: abrakadeborah.

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DEFINITION: n., Second-hand sound which has escaped from a headset. v., To play music on personal listening device so loudly that it leaks out of the earphones.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Escapera: /es kay pera/ When Grandma played her classical music, we could hear the escapera coming from her headphones. We got to know her play Liszt well. Even when we tried Haydn her machine, she would always get it Bach in the Mozartful manner. Even after she passed on, we could see her ghost,wearing her Strauss jeans with her love Handels showing, a sweater that was starting to unRavel and Tosca perfume, she was Offenbach in the garden decomposing. Etymology: Escape & Opera Created by: Nosila.

Musicophony: /myoōzikäfənē/ Tom’s company tried to make peace with its workers by asking that they use earbuds or headphones when listening to their chosen form of entertainment. What they didn’t expect was the musicacophony that spilled from the various listening devices with maxed-out volumes. Etymology: music (a sound perceived as pleasingly harmonious) + cacophony (a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds) Created by: artr.

Hisshop: /Hiss-hop/ In an attempt to signal her disquiet, Sally peered over the top of her book and stared directly over to the nodding girl on the opposite side of the carriage. The hisshop emanating from there was causing caused Sally to imagine herself breaking off the arm of her seat and bludgeoning the bitch to a pulp to the rapturous sound of applause from the rest of the passengers. Etymology: Hiss – a sound like the letter ‘s’; a noisy leak. Hop – to jump from place to place Created by: wordslikevenom.

Grandaudio: /grand-ah-dee-oh/ Here she goes again…getting grandaudio with her iPod! “Hey, Grandma you’re walking into the path of a bus!” Etymology: Grand- Taken in part from ‘Grand’mother and also as in impressive in size, appearance, or general effect. Such as a grand/big sound.
Audio- Of, pertaining to, or employed in the transmission, reception, or reproduction of sound.
Created by: abrakadeborah.

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