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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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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
Rindawfulous
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: rynd of ful us
Sentence: Jackie lived in morbid fear of accidentally eating part of an apple peel, orange rind or other fruit covering skin. She thought of doing so made her feel rindawfulous.
Etymology: Rind (peel,skin) & Awful (causing fear or dread or terror) & WordPlay on Rhinocerous
Dermaphobe
Created by: ajnemajrje
Pronunciation: der-mah-foh-b
Sentence: John has a fear of anything skinlike. He is a classic dermahobe.
Etymology: A play on germaphobe. a person who reacts to anything with a skin as if it is riddled with filth and bacteria.
Agrowaphobia
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: ah + gro + ah + pho + bee + ah
Sentence: I know that's got lots of vitamins and all that, but I'm still not eating it because, frankly, it's yucky.
Etymology: agoraphobia but with "grow" in there.
Repeelant
Created by: astorey
Pronunciation: ree-peel-ant
Sentence: Nadia could still see her father picking the skin off a baked chicken, slurping it into his mouth and smacking his lips. Ew. While Nadia tried to blame her repeelant attitude on her father alone, she did, at times, acknowledge her own role. In a three-month stint as a server at TGI Fridays, Nadia served enough Loaded Potato Skins (tm) to make her repeelant complete and irreversible.
Etymology: Repellant combined with peel.
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)
Fregtimalaphobia
Created by: ericsimmons39
Pronunciation: F-redge-tim-ull-a-foe-bee-a
Sentence: "Carrie, what the hell? You know kids in Spain would kill for the rest of your potato peels. Why do you have to be so ignorant?" "Frank, I'm sorry ok, i have a condition, i have Fregtimalaphobia... ok. I don't know how long i have.
Etymology: Fruit + Vegitable + Animal + Phobia... i suppose i left out the part about the skin and peels.
Integumentophobia
Created by: maryamwebster
Pronunciation: integ-u-men-toe-FO-bee-uh
Sentence: "Don't put a whole aardvark Beatrice's plate - she had terrible integumentophobia."
Etymology: Integument, meaning external skin and phobia, meaning fear of.
Revoldermis
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Rev-ol-dur-miss
Sentence: Mary,s mum had always made her eat the skins of her baked potatoes even thogh she couldn't bear them as she found them dry and tasteless. Now that she had left home she no longer had to suffer revoldermis as she took great delight in leaving the skins on the side of her plate without having her mum breathing down her neck.
Etymology: Revolting + Dermis( the thick layer of skin below the epidermis) = Revoldermis
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James