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DEFINITION: n., The fear of eating the skins of fruits, vegetables, or small animals. v., To worry about saving one's skin while chewing on a rind, peel, or pelt.
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Fregtimalaphobia
Created by: ericsimmons39
Pronunciation: F-redge-tim-ull-a-foe-bee-a
Sentence: "Carrie, what the hell? You know kids in Spain would kill for the rest of your potato peels. Why do you have to be so ignorant?" "Frank, I'm sorry ok, i have a condition, i have Fregtimalaphobia... ok. I don't know how long i have.
Etymology: Fruit + Vegitable + Animal + Phobia... i suppose i left out the part about the skin and peels.
Gnashaghast
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: NASH-ah-gast
Sentence: Susan couldn't stand the thought of eating an un-peeled peach. the feeling of the fuzz on her teeth gave her a clear case of gnashaghast. Watching her friends munching on apples gave her the heebie-jeebies.
Etymology: gnash (a grinding of ones teeth) + aghast (filled with horror or shock)
Repeelant
Created by: astorey
Pronunciation: ree-peel-ant
Sentence: Nadia could still see her father picking the skin off a baked chicken, slurping it into his mouth and smacking his lips. Ew. While Nadia tried to blame her repeelant attitude on her father alone, she did, at times, acknowledge her own role. In a three-month stint as a server at TGI Fridays, Nadia served enough Loaded Potato Skins (tm) to make her repeelant complete and irreversible.
Etymology: Repellant combined with peel.
Repulskin
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: ri/puhl/skin
Sentence: Jenny has suffered from the dreaded phobia of repulskin since early childhood. She can't eat apples, grapes, nectarines, or especially fuzzy peaches, or any other fruits unless all the skin is completely peeled off.
Etymology: REPULSKIN - noun - from REPULSION (distaste, repugnance, or aversion by the thought, or presence of something) + SKIN (the external covering of an animal body, fruit , or vegetable)
Fearskin
Created by: MrDave2176
Pronunciation: fear-skin
Sentence: Ari knew that all he had to do to remove the fearskin was to face up to the challenge of the peel. But he could not get past the rindgressive feelings that plagued his thoughts. rindgress: to look back in your thoughts in fear while confronting skins or peels.
Etymology: n: fearskin: fear + skin, v: rindgress: rind + regress
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COMMENTS:
HA! - purpleartichokes, 2007-10-08: 19:11:00
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Nonoutskined
Created by: klovezu
Pronunciation: non-out-skin'ed
Sentence: i will not eat that banana peal im a nonoutskined!
Etymology:
Fearomembrane
Created by: aigle101
Pronunciation: fear-o-membrane
Sentence: noun;fear of any outer skin(membrane) whether refering to fruit ,vegetable or animal etc...;
Etymology: fear and membrane (outer skin or fur)
Skinskittish
Created by: LoftyDreamer
Pronunciation: skin + skittish
Sentence: The skinskittish children reluctantly ate the grapes, then finally accepted the fact that their purple mouths and hands would be with them for days.
Etymology: skin (the outer layer of an organism) + skittish (jumpy or jittery)
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COMMENTS:
Being skinskittish would cause them to have a great deal of skinsternation. - Mustang, 2008-09-08: 22:19:00
Kids like that would have Grape Expectations! - Nosila, 2008-09-09: 00:32:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James