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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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Spearit
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: speer/it
Sentence: Dave didn't eat anything unless he could spearit.
Etymology: spear + spirit + it
Steriliphobe
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Steri-luh-fobe
Sentence: Overly concerned about germs on his food, Jerome became a steriliphobe
Etymology: Sterile - phobia
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)
Fretiquette
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: fret ik eht
Sentence: His fretiquette derived from a summer camp where as a child he saw a cook with the personal hygiene of an epidemic.
Etymology: fret etiquette
Digitrepidation
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: dijittrepidāshən
Sentence: Rob has a bad case of digitrepidation. He fears the sight of fingers. If he had his way everybody would be required to wear mittens like he does. Even the mention of finger food gives him the heebie-jeebies.
Etymology: digit (a finger (including the thumb) or toe) + trepidation (a feeling of fear or agitation about something that may happen)
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
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)
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
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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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