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DEFINITION: v., To drop food on the floor, then pick it up and eat it, before anyone else can say "it's too dirty". n., A tasty treat which has been accidentally dropped, then quickly salvaged and savored.
Verboticisms
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Hyperglandous
Created by: deaninc
Pronunciation: hi-per-gland-us
Sentence: Being hyperglandous does have its opportunity
Etymology: The increased sensitivity of the oral receptors responding to an individual craving
Stapholacrumb
Created by: fourgirls
Pronunciation: staf o la crum
Sentence: Craig there are not enough families of antibiotics to cure you from that stapholacrumb.
Etymology: Staph, crumb
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COMMENTS:
That's Great!! - MadTripper, 2007-10-11: 10:40:00
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Fook
Created by: FreakoSpeako
Pronunciation:
Sentence: before anyone looks lets fook the food.
Etymology:
Pizzaramics
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: Peetz-uh-RAM-micks
Sentence: Sylvester loved all sorts of gooey things made out of lots of stuff like casseroles, pastas, and stews, so it came as no surprise to anyone that his most favorite thing in the world was to drop five things on the tiled kitchen floor and have a feast of pizzaramic proportions.
Etymology: Pizza: italian pie filled with lots of meaty and cheesy goodies + Ceramics: what tiled floors are often made of.
Appathetic
Created by: DrWebsterIII
Pronunciation: ap pathetik
Sentence: Jenny slapped James wuth her Manolo Blanik's exclaiming, 'you're so appathetic, you choose to eat food off the floor than drink champagne from my shoe!"
Etymology: appetizer (a small first course; food) + pathetic (ridiculous, embarrassing )
Graviteat
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: grav it eet
Sentence: It got to be too much for Julie. Taking her partner Matt out to trendy cocktail parties and other social outings were too embarrassing for her. You see, Matt would graviteat anything that he "accidentally" dropped on the ground. The first ten or twenty times it happened one could put down to clumsiness. But it now became apparent to Julie that he was doing it on purpose. He finally admitted to her that he loved to floorage for food...it somehow tasted better to him. She would have to find him a support group, like Parqueteaters Anonymous or ThirsaTiles or LinoleYum or Carpet Consumers and their Underlaying Causes. If she didn't, there would be no Welcome, Matt.
Etymology: Gravity (The force of attraction between the Earth's mass for bodies near its surface) & Gravitate (be attracted to;move toward) & Eat (consume food)
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COMMENTS:
Welcome Matt ! Love it. VERY satisfying microstory, Nosila. :) - metrohumanx, 2008-09-30: 14:21:00
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Carpetdiet
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: Car-pay-di-et
Sentence: It was a matter of carpetdiet when Doug, upon dropping a piece of prosciutto on the floor, suddenly dropped to his knees to recover the morsel.
Etymology: carpe diem, carpet, diet
Flotsyum
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: FLOTZ - yum. In time, no doubt, the "Y" would be lost & the pron would become: flotzum.
Sentence: Fastidiousness wasn't one of Bob's stronger points. And from the time when he was a drover on the Barcoo, and nearly had to eat a barcoo sandwich to survive, his philosophy was that if it was food, it was edible. So when any flotsyum hit the floor, Bob quickly upgrubbed it.
Etymology: Blend of flotsam & yum: By analogy -when tasty food falls "overboard. Yum: yummy, tasty, scrumptious. Upgrub: grub: "food" & vb: to forage. Barcoo sandwich: Any outback food considered to be inedible, as (humorously) a goanna between two slabs of bark.
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COMMENTS:
Bob could have a jetsammich with his flotsyum. They both sound pretty Barcoo to me. Great word and sentence as usual OZ! - Scrumpy, 2007-10-11: 07:23:00
love upgrubbed as well - Jabberwocky, 2007-10-11: 12:07:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you again remistram! ~ James
mplsbohemian - 2007-10-11: 22:57:00
There are a LOT of good words today!
Yes lots of floordoeuvres for thought. Tasty too! Even if they are all full of antipastogens. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James