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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.
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Rindossiferous
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Rind-ossifer-ous
Sentence: Betsy worried that her skin would crinkle and crack to the point that she became totally rindossiferous.
Etymology: Rind + ossify
Dermaversion
Created by: DrWebsterIII
Pronunciation: 'durm a vur zhun
Sentence: Jenny Dole had long had her serious condition; dermaversion, ever since Bob would force her to eat not only the fruits, but all their skins entirely!
Etymology: derma: skin + aversion: a fear of, scared
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COMMENTS:
THIS DEFINITION WAS A DIFFICULT STRUGGLE CAUSE IT WAS SO MORBID!!:( AND WHO IS VOTING SO MUCH IT'S OFF THE CHARTS
- DrWebsterIII, 2012-11-09: 05:15:00
i'm glad with the voting enthusiasts
- DrWebsterIII, 2012-11-09: 05:37:00
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Neurosiderm
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: noo-roh-sih-durm
Sentence: Elodie's neurosiderm centered around eating pears. She'll never get over the time she ate one right before she presented at work in front of her team and bits of pear skin stuck to the roof of her mouth and on to her front teeth.
Etymology: neurosis + derma
Treprindation
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: trep-i-rahyn-dey-shuh n
Sentence: Bill's mother didn't mean to give him treprindation but that's what happened. He now peels all of his food just because she trimmed the crust from his sandwiches. His wife, on the other hand, drives him just about crazy when she eats bananas peel and all and shrimp with shells intact.
Etymology: trepidation (anxiety, worry) + rind (covering)
Gnashaghast
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: NASH-ah-gast
Sentence: Susan couldn't stand the thought of eating an un-peeled peach. the feeling of the fuzz on her teeth gave her a clear case of gnashaghast. Watching her friends munching on apples gave her the heebie-jeebies.
Etymology: gnash (a grinding of ones teeth) + aghast (filled with horror or shock)
Nonoutskined
Created by: klovezu
Pronunciation: non-out-skin'ed
Sentence: i will not eat that banana peal im a nonoutskined!
Etymology:
Rindnoshnervous
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: ryend/nosh/nur/vus
Sentence: Sally was extremely rindnoshnervous to the point where her gag reflex would kick in at the very mention of fuzz, coat, husk or shell.
Etymology: rind (skin) + nosh (eat) + nervous + sounds like rhinoceros
Abomidermy
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: a-bom-uh-DER-mee
Sentence: Bob had created such a long litany of words for his abomidermy, such as eskinchewy, dreaddruff, dermaghast, and sloughthroe etc., that he spent the whole day trying to find ways "to save his own skin."
Etymology: Blend of ABOMINATE: hate, detest, loathe, find repugnant and DERM: (skin). ESKINCHEWY (skin; eschew; chewy.)
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COMMENTS:
funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-09-09: 05:59:00
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Rindsternation
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: rynd-styr-NAY-shun
Sentence: Melinda was frozen with rindsternation anytime she was faced with the prospect of eating the skin of any produce or animal, fearing that it would block up or otherwise harm her digestive system yet she couldn't bear throwing them away fearing they could bring some sort of harm to others.
Etymology: Blend of 'skin' (peel or rind) and 'consternation' (amazement or dismay that hinders or throws one into confusion)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James