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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.
Verboticisms
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Skinsternation
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: skin-ster-ney-shuhn
Sentence: Thelma was almost paralyzed with severe skinsternation anytime she was faced with the prospect of eating the skin of any produce or animal, fearing that it would block up or otherwise harm her digestive system.
Etymology: Blend of 'skin' and 'consternation ( A state of paralyzing dismay)
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COMMENTS:
good word - OZZIEBOB, 2008-09-09: 07:03:00
Great! great word! - vmalcolm, 2008-09-09: 07:34:00
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Rindossiferous
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Rind-ossifer-ous
Sentence: Betsy worried that her skin would crinkle and crack to the point that she became totally rindossiferous.
Etymology: Rind + ossify
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)
Dermaghast
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: Der-MA-ghast
Sentence: When Bob developed a picaderm for chunks of cobia skin, Roxie chundered cobiaphobically. And, soon, her dermaghast was not confined only to cobia; for she peelreeled at the sight of peaches, shellshaked at the soupcon of shrimp and couldn't shed the dread of dehusking. Dermaghast and despondent, it was clear that she was dermsquirming almost pandermically.
Etymology: 1. Derm: skin & aghast; to fear, dread 2.Cobia (cho-Bi-ah): a tropical food & game food fish. 3.Chunder: (Aust slang): to vomit.
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COMMENTS:
Ah, the classic Verbotomy technique for overcoming Verbotomist's block of flooding your example sentence with an entire suite of related words. - ErWenn, 2007-10-08: 10:58:00
like a dark Dr. Zeus - Jabberwocky, 2007-10-09: 12:12:00
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Skinflinch
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: skin/flinch
Sentence: Sue was such a skinflinch that she gagged every time she passed by a basket of peaches.
Etymology: skinflint + flinch
Skinedible
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: skinedəbəl
Sentence: Ruby is afraid of any food that has an exterior that is different than its interior. She sees it as skinedible. To her, even skinadvertent skingestion of skin is skinappropriate. It gives her skindigestion. She won*t even drink hot chocolate that has started to cool.
Etymology: skin (the thin layer of tissue forming the natural outer covering of the body of a person or animal) + inedible (not fit to be eaten)
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COMMENTS:
good one! - mrskellyscl, 2010-02-03: 06:39:00
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Exocarphobia
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˌɛksəkaɹˈfo(ʊ)biə/
Sentence: I wanted to come up with a funnier word to describe exocarphobia, but the picture of that banana peel frightens me so much that I can't look at it any longer.
Etymology: From exocarp (the skin, peel, or rind of a fruit) + phobia
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COMMENTS:
Funnily enough, there's a banana peel sitting on my desk right now that looks suspiciously like the one in the picture. (Yes, it's from a banana I just ate and not more than a few minutes old.) - ErWenn, 2007-10-08: 10:53:00
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Hidermaphobia
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: hy derm a fobe eeya
Sentence: Heidi had Hidermaphobia and could not hide it. Whether she travelled to Hyderabad or Hernando's Hideaway, she could not eat the hide of any fruit or any vegetable. She could not hide from it. In fact her fear was so great, a-pare-entally she could not even peel them. The eyes on potatoes stared at her accusingly;eating cherries was the pits;beets had her beat;peas made her snap and she feared bananas a bunch. She'd turnip her nose at rutabagas; carrots made her want to top herself and onions made her cry. It was then no wonder that when the cute guy in Produce asked her to go out on a "date", she ran screaming from the grocery store! Now Heidi is in hiding.
Etymology: Hide(body covering of a living animal or the dressed skin of an animal) & Derma (the deep vascular inner layer of the skin) & Phobia (fear; an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations)
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COMMENTS:
Nice word - OZZIEBOB, 2008-09-09: 07:05:00
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Perhfable
Created by: lalaland
Pronunciation: Peer-fah-ble
Sentence: Angel peeled the skin of the apple for she is very Perhfable.
Etymology: Origin-American. In the 1700's, Perhfable really meant "The fear of eating Fruits and Vegtibles" but in 1924 It changed to mean "The fear of eating the peel or rines of fruits and vegtibles"
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James