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DEFINITION: n. The euphoria felt when sticking one's hand surreptitiously into a barrelful of rice, peas, or other legumes. v. To plunge your hand into a container of rice.
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Manoeuphoria
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: mahn-o-u-for-e-a
Sentence: "We have a name for it," the doctor had said, "manoeuphoria." All her life Bridget had felt only a slight guilt and unease whenever she stuck her hand into containers of small, cool, round, but firm, objects. They were especially pleasurable on a hot summer's day. She couldn't stop herself. Her first indulgence had come in childhood when she would stick her hand--she always prefered her left--into the large jar of buttons in her grandmother's sewing room. Later, when she was older, she had done the same with the peas, rice and other legumes her parents stored in the storm cellar of their farmhouse in Kansas. Now that she was a famous actress in New York City, the gourmet jelly beans she kept in the half-barrel by her bedside didn't quite produce the same high, but she had her memories. It had been a long process describing her feelings to the doctor, but in her last session she had been able to tell him she knew what it was to be one with a waterfall.
Etymology: From manos, for hand; euphoria, for intense happiness
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COMMENTS:
Could i have Bridget's phone number? - metrohumanx, 2008-08-11: 17:21:00
No other authors in this group?
How humble. - metrohumanx, 2008-08-12: 14:36:00
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Scurfle
Created by: Scattercat
Pronunciation: sker-ful
Sentence: The delibulous scurfle of the clatatat beans filled me with gleen.
Etymology: Sounds a bit happy and soothing (and owes a small amount to the 'scurf of yesterday' which so entranced Amelie, who helped to popularize this pasttime.)
Leguriate
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ləˈgjuɹiˌeɪt/
Sentence: Though the word "leguriate" technically refers to the physical pleasure found in fondling legumes, one can euphemistically leguriate any raw, dried food product.
Etymology: legume + luxuriate
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COMMENTS:
love it!! - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-28: 10:10:00
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Inpulse
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: inn puhlllllssss
Sentence: her inpulse was to get inpulses
Etymology: impulse, in pulse,
Gleedipity
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: glee-DIP-ee-tee
Sentence: Sarah was a obsessive compulsive dipper, whose gleedipity was the bane of shopkeeepers everywhere.
Etymology: GLEE: open delight or pleasure; exultant joy; exultation. DIP: 1. to put the hand down into a liquid or a container, esp. in order to remove something (often fol. by in or into)DIP 2. Sl. to pickpocket, a pickpocket: ie: to "dip" your hand surreptitiously into someone pocket. ITY: state or condition, and with SERENDIPITY in mind
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COMMENTS:
Inspirational OCD. Good one, O-bob! - metrohumanx, 2008-08-11: 17:12:00
gleepidity doo dah - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-11: 19:40:00
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Vegistate
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Veg-ee-stay-t
Sentence: Whenever Lucy put her hands into a tub of split peas she found the experience so wonderful that it sent her into a complete vegistate.
Etymology: Veg(informal, vegetable) + State(the condition of someone at a particular time) = Vegistate
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COMMENTS:
Succinct...I can't take those FORMAL vegetables. - metrohumanx, 2008-08-12: 14:35:00
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Paradrice
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: pare/a/drice
Sentence: Slipping off to the market near work and dipping her fingers into the cool vat of silky rice was nothing short of paradrice.
Etymology: paradise + rice
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COMMENTS:
...until they caught her. - metrohumanx, 2008-08-11: 17:19:00
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Legumexhilaration
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: leh - goom - egz - ill - uhr - ay - shun
Sentence: Marilu had a weird fascination with peas, beans, other legumes and rice and when she would get near the displays in the stores she couldnt resist indulging in legumexhiliration, running her hands thru the veggies, eyes closed, swaying to and fro, humming and clearly in some other realm.
Etymology: Blend of legume and exhilaration.
Granuelation
Created by: cohenarie
Pronunciation: gran-yoo-'lay-shun
Sentence: Walking down the bulk foods aisle on an uncrowded early weekday morning, I could indulge myself with many opportunities for granuelation.
Etymology: granular + elation
Tactileguminosaeity
Created by: Clayton
Pronunciation: tak-TIL-i-gyu-me-no-SAHY-i-tee
Sentence: Virna was overcome by a sudden tactileguminosaeity, finding herself inexplicably aroused by the alfalfa shoots.
Etymology: tactility + leguminosae
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by duchessella. Thank you duchessella! ~ James
The Stevenson0 gets this week's Verbotomy Cup and goes actstatic! Read about it in Verbotoweek.
ErWenn - 2007-05-28: 00:56:00
Rice is a legume?
rikboyee - 2007-05-28: 01:00:00
it has bean for a while now
If there is no pulse after a nitrogen fix, check for dry pellets or signs of pea.
Clayton - 2007-05-28: 04:55:00
Too funny. Peas keep it up. Apparently rice is of the family Poaceae, and legumes Fabaceae. They share the same division, Magnoliopsida, but not the same class or order, so they're not very closely related as far as I can tell. But my thumb isn't so green, either.
Thank you for the question and clarifications. I apologize for my loose conjugglation. I was merely trying to plant a seed (or even provide a barrelful of seeds) that would allow our verbotomists to leguritate in a little verbal lentitillation, and perhaps climax with a grammatical tactileguminosaeity. To encourage this kind of wild inpulsation, perhaps we should change the definition to read "... a barrelful of rice, legumes, seeds, candies, or any other dry pellet-shaped objects." ~ James
Clayton - 2007-05-28: 18:03:00
Why stop there? Let's include moist things, too, like baked beans, caviar, and goose liver.
scrabbelicious - 2008-08-11: 07:55:00
I'm so gleed, that's it!
Today's definition was suggested by duchessella. Thank you duchessella. ~ James