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DEFINITION: v., To swap your lousy lunch for a way tastier one found in the shared office fridge. n., A lunch which is borrowed from a coworker and will not be returned until after it has been consumed.
Verboticisms
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Exvictual
Created by: zxvasdf
Pronunciation: ex vict ual
Sentence: He took one look in his lunch bag and found that he had been exvictualized. Fair's only fair, he thought when he peeked into the various containers scattered in the refrigerator for his very own exvictual.
Etymology: Exchange (to trade) & Evict (to expel) & Victual (food)
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COMMENTS:
Way too many good words today... - Nosila, 2008-10-02: 22:27:00
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Sandwicheroo
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: sand-wihch-ur-OO
Sentence: Alex plotted a complex sandwicheroo by which the object of his affection would discover a diamond ring tucked inside the PBJ he would finagle her to eat, but all it led to was a trip to the emergency room for her lacerated esophagus.
Etymology: sandwich + switcheroo
Swapunch
Created by: iluvenglish
Pronunciation: swa-punch
Sentence: roger was dying to swapunch his lunch for the salmon steak.
Etymology: swap, lunch
Stenograb
Created by: lumina
Pronunciation: sten/o/grab
Sentence: Always on the run, Steve would swing open the company fridge to stenograb something quick and filling. Didn't matter to him whose name was on what or how big it was written, "KEEP OUT! AND THIS MEANS YOU STEVE!" No. As he had "places to go and people to see," he felt justified in stenograbbing from the fridge at least three times a week. Unfortunately one day, someone filled a danish with chocolate ExLax to teach him a lesson. He now brownbags it daily. (true story from my working days...poor janitor...was out for two days...and NO I didn't do it...)
Etymology: stenograph: A shorthand character/ write in shorthand. grab: Snap up: get hold of or seize quickly and easily.
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COMMENTS:
Yes you did and good on you! At least justice was swift...maybe too swift! - Nosila, 2008-10-02: 22:21:00
Oh, Nosila! It wasn't me! I swear! Actually the entire office thought it was really a mean thing the woman did, but she thought he deserved it. Too cruel for me. - lumina, 2008-10-03: 00:08:00
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Liencuisine
Created by: rexcausey
Pronunciation: lē'ən-kwi-zeen
Sentence: After indulging in some liencuisine, Jack was payed back ten fold as he spent the rest of his afternoon bowing before the "porcelain throne". (I guess you better be careful whose food you "borrow"!)
Etymology: Liencuisine is a noun derived from the words 1.) lien(in reference to: a claim or charge held by one party, on property owned by a second party)and 2.)cuisine(in reference to: FOOD)
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COMMENTS:
We all need a friend that we can lien on...good word - Nosila, 2008-10-02: 22:23:00
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Filchard
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: Fil chard
Sentence: Wayne was called into the Office Manager's office at 3:00 pm for his herring. He had been accused by Dory, the new assistant, of stealing her lunch 5 days in a row. She was partial to seafood salads and so apparently was Wayne. Monday he had rustled her mussels;Tuesday he had stole her sole;Wednesday he had pawed her cod; Thursday he had to take her hake and today he had filchard her pilchard. He tried to protest. But his defense floundered when his breath was smelt!
Etymology: Filch (make off with belongings of others)& Pilchard (small fatty fish usually canned)
Thighjacker
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: thahy-jak-er
Sentence: Whenever Bob gets chicken for dinner he takes the leftovers to work the next day for lunch. What really annoys him is that there is a thighjacker who seems to have no compunction about pilfering from his co-workers.
Etymology: thigh (The part of the leg between the hip and the knee. Also called femur) + hijacker (to rob (a person or vehicle) by force)
Fraudulunch
Created by: bzav1
Pronunciation: frawed - you - lunch
Sentence: After performing a soupendectomy on Mary's lunch bag and pulling the old swindlewich on Bill, leaving a ham on white for his ploughman, Jim had put together quite a fraudulunch.
Etymology: fraudulunch = blend of fraudulent and lunch, soupendectomy = to successfully remove soup from the lunch bag of another, swindlewich = secretly trading your sandwich for one of better quality.
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COMMENTS:
Nice words - pungineer, 2007-11-06: 06:09:00
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Thievereat
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: thee + ver + eat
Sentence: I forgot my lunch today, so I'll just hit the fridge and theivereat.
Etymology: theivery + eat
Lunrob
Created by: Kealtyrock
Pronunciation: lun-rob
Sentence: The tuna salad sandwisch that Hilda brought for lunch was a victim of lunrob from the office refrigerator.
Etymology: lunch and rob to steal
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram! ~ James'
OZZIEBOB - 2007-11-05: 06:09:00
Good definition,REMI! During 40+ years of work, I found it to be a regular occurrence- probably happening somewhere right now!
mplsbohemian - 2007-11-05: 10:07:00
This has produced a great batch of words so far!
remistram - 2007-11-05: 10:47:00
It happens to all of us at least once during our working life!
purpleartichokes - 2007-11-05: 11:00:00
Happened with dip I brought in. Caught him in the act. Wouldn't be so bad if he wasn't double-dipping. And didn't have really poor oral hygiene. And I wasn't sure that it was his first offense and I had actually eaten the dip after him at some point. Yuck!
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James