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'Ewhh! You're eating chocolate-covered ants with a knife and fork!?'

DEFINITION: v., To use a knife and fork to eat foods like hamburgers, pizza, or pigeon wings, which are customarily consumed using one's hands. n., A person who is afraid to eat food touched by human hands.

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Fiddledfoodphobia

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: fid/dled/food/pho/bia

Sentence: Amy's two afflictions, repulskin and fiddledfoodphobia drove her boyfirend crazy. She couldn't eat at a restaurant unless she visited the kitchen to ensure all the cooks were wearing rubber gloves. Fiddledfoodphobia is a strange, but very common ailment of wash-my-hands-every-three-minutes people.

Etymology: fiddled with + food + phobia

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Utensilitis

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: yew-ten-sil-EYE-tis

Sentence: Webster has an odd fixation his friends have labled utensilitis, wherein he feels compelled to use utensils to eat all manner of food to avoid eating anything touched by human hands, even his own.

Etymology: Blend of 'utensil' and the suffix 'itis' (humorous - Used to form the names of various fictitious afflictions or diseases)

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Cutleridiculous

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: kuht-luh-ree-dik-yuh-luhs

Sentence: Hugo has a problem with getting anything on his hands. He washes them at least 10 times a day, more often if he happens to touch something icky. When he eats he becomes cutleridiculous, never allowing any food to touch his hands.

Etymology: cutlery (utensils, as knives, forks, and spoons, used at the table for serving and eating food) ridiculous (stupid, funny)

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Implementill

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: im plem ent ill

Sentence: George's insistance on eating all his foods with a knife, spoon and/or fork was considered instrumentill by his friends. His phobia about not touching his food was especially painful to watch when he ate popcorn, chocolate bars and mixed nuts.

Etymology: Implement (utensil,piece of equipment used as a means to an effect)&Ill (sick;not well;unfavourable;with disapproval) - WordPlay on instrumental (serving or acting as a means or aid)

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Utensillious

Created by: Brett

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Utensilizer

Created by: fourgirls

Pronunciation: Ū-tĕn-sĭl-īzĕr

Sentence: Look at Craig. After graduating from finishing school, he can't seem to stop himself from utensilizing his potato wedges.

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Putensillanimous

Created by: phonematode

Pronunciation: pyoo-tehn-suh-lan-uh-muhs

Sentence: When Elaine grabbed a fried mozarella stick off the sampler plate without using the fork Jerry had set on it, Jerry slapped her hand and squeeled like a small girl. "Jerry, you're such a putensillanimous little twit!" she replied before licking all his silverware.

Etymology: pusillanimous, utensil

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Germowary

Created by: FayeWord

Pronunciation: jerm-o-wear-y

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Analutensive

Created by: ScrabbledEgg

Pronunciation: AY-nuhl-yoo-TEHN-siv

Sentence: He was so analutensive, he brought out his own sterile pack of silverware at the Ethiopian restaurant, where he was meeting his fiance's parents for the first time. Soon thereafter, his embarrassed fiance ripped him a new one, and the next day he underwent cutlerectal surgery. (cutlery + colorectal)

Etymology: anal-retentive + utensil

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COMMENTS:

You got to the BOTTOM of things Scrab! - Scrumpy, 2007-10-09: 09:54:00

very clarsey - rikboyee, 2007-10-09: 19:13:00

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Toolfool

DrWebsterIII

Created by: DrWebsterIII

Pronunciation: tool fool

Sentence: Ray Rachael was always peeved when Gordon toolfooled everything he ate, even when it was a liquid that should just be sipped

Etymology: tool: utensil + fool (stupid, ignorant)

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-10-09: 00:01:00
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram! ~ James

remistram - 2007-10-09: 09:59:00
I actually got the idea from a Seinfeld episode, the one where Elaine witnesses her boss Mr. Pitt eating a Snickers bar with a knife & fork.

MrDave2176 MrDave2176 - 2007-10-09: 10:53:00
I saw this in action on cruise ships with people who refused to eat from the buffet because all those dirty people" had touched the food.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-10-09: 23:22:00
I was thinking of using a chocolate bar in the comic, but then I remembered this girl from grade school who ate ants. Of course, she used her fingers. ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2010-02-04: 00:14:00
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James