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: /trepädÄshÉ™n/ Jan’s mom has some odd ideas about food. Just because she shopped at Whole Foods she thought you had to eat foods â€as isâ€. 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. â€No shucking wayâ€. 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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