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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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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)
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:
Iltactillian
Created by: dogran
Pronunciation: IL-TACT-Il-IAN
Sentence: See Fred over there, He's Iltactillian, very unfortunate for his wife.
Etymology: tactile-touch + negative prefix + suffix
Handsfreater
Created by: ajnemajrje
Pronunciation: Hands-Free-Ter
Sentence: I never knew John was a Handsfreater until i saw him eat a choclate bar with a knife and fork.
Etymology: Contraction of Hands Free Eater
Steriliphobe
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Steri-luh-fobe
Sentence: Overly concerned about germs on his food, Jerome became a steriliphobe
Etymology: Sterile - phobia
Anasocialism
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ænəˈsoʊʃḷˌzṃ/
Sentence: Etymologically, "anasocialism" refers to any social norm or etiquette used in the wrong situation, but it is strongly associated the Society for Creative Anasocialism, and so it is rarely used to describe anything but the use of high-class table manners for eating low-class food.
Etymology: ana- + social + -ism
Utenzealot
Created by: emdeejay
Pronunciation: You tense a lot ?
Sentence: Barry would fall into almost rapturous convulsions when he saw someone eating food with their hands and (gasp) not on a plate. I believed blindly in the superiority of cutlery in not just a hygienic sense, but a moral one too. Anxiety over not having appropriate implements forced him to keep an emergency eating kit in his glove compartment. He was quite the utenzealot.
Etymology: Utensil, Zealot
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
Cutlerivore
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: kut-le-REE-voor
Sentence: When Bob's cobbers saw him hoe into his tucker - a hamburger with the lot -with the silverware, they sat there like stunned mullets. And Roxie gave Doc Howlong a tingle to come and see what was up with Bob. On being told that Bob may have a touch of the barcoo rot, Roxie chucked a wobbly, thinking that Bob was a goner about to tumble off the twig at any tick of the clock. But in the end, it was decided that Bob was simply a cutlerivore, and that Roxie's only real worry would be the "elliot ness".
Etymology: Blend of cutlery & vore: one who will touch and eat food only with cutlery. (not one who eats cutlery: consider philanderer!)
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COMMENTS:
Funny one OZ! - Scrumpy, 2007-10-09: 09:52:00
good one! - Jabberwocky, 2007-10-09: 15:13:00
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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