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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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Squeamdish
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: squeem/dish
Sentence: A squeamdish person will always use utensils while preparing or eating food. People who criticize this eating disorder are know as dishrags.
Etymology: squeamish + dish
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COMMENTS:
Your squeamdish person sounds like they might need utensive care. Excellent word! - Scrumpy, 2007-10-09: 09:59:00
Beware of dishrags: they'll "knife" you! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-10-09: 18:35:00
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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.
Etymology: fiddled with + food + phobia
Spearit
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: speer/it
Sentence: Dave didn't eat anything unless he could spearit.
Etymology: spear + spirit + it
Fingcutler
Created by: Roosje
Pronunciation:
Sentence: As the fingcutler enjoyed his large portion of Bejing duck, the family marched along half of the whole Chinese wall.
Etymology: fingers + cutlery
Digitrauma
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: dijitroumə
Sentence: Wendell suffers digitrauma whenever he imagines people in the restaurant kitchen touching his food. The advertising slogan for KFC gives him a major case of the heebie-jeebies. He can’t even bring himself to say it out loud.
Etymology: digit (a finger) + trauma (a deeply distressing or disturbing experience)
Incophalangist
Created by: deaninc
Pronunciation: in-ko-fo-lan-jest
Sentence: he's the incopholangist
Etymology: phalangy pertains to fingers, the prefix -co- refers to being against ones order, and -in- carries the negative
Digitaintophobia
Created by: tehbeks
Pronunciation: [dɪdɜɪtəntəfoubijə]
Sentence: His digitaintophobia was so bad he would faint at the sight of mixed nuts on a bar.
Etymology: digit-taint-phobia from latin and greek
Utensiliferation
Created by: egyptodd
Pronunciation: you-ten-sil-if-ehr-ay-shun
Sentence: Though it saves you from grease accidents when eating pizza, utensiliferation can cause arthritis and cramping.
Etymology: utensil + proliferation
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.
Etymology:
Hypercutlerize
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: hi per cut ler aiz
Sentence: It was always fun to nudge him because when Doug ate popcorn he tended to hypercutlerize and use a fork.
Etymology: hyper + cutlery
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COMMENTS:
forkenstein - Nosila, 2010-02-04: 23:55:00
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Comments:
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.
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.
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
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James