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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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Skintolerance
Created by: Discoveria
Pronunciation: skinn-TAWL-ur-unse
Sentence: Mina's skintolerance prevented her from eating apples unless they were completely peeled and cored.
Etymology: skin + intolerance
Rindawfulous
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: rynd of ful us
Sentence: Jackie lived in morbid fear of accidentally eating part of an apple peel, orange rind or other fruit covering skin. She thought of doing so made her feel rindawfulous.
Etymology: Rind (peel,skin) & Awful (causing fear or dread or terror) & WordPlay on Rhinocerous
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)
Dermoconservator
Created by: Roosje
Pronunciation:
Sentence: While the fingcutler ate his Peking duck, the dermoconservator started to panic.
Etymology: Dermo = skin conservate = to save
Circumskin
Created by: wordslikevenom
Pronunciation: Sir-cum-skin
Sentence: Time and time again, Quasimodo had been advised to circumskin the Ugli fruit. Alas, he did not know what 'fruit' meant.
Etymology: circumnavigate - to proceed completely around. Skin - the natural outer layer which covers a person, animal, fruit, etc.
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COMMENTS:
:) - Nosila, 2011-06-20: 18:37:00
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Rindnoshnervous
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: ryend/nosh/nur/vus
Sentence: Sally was extremely rindnoshnervous to the point where her gag reflex would kick in at the very mention of fuzz, coat, husk or shell.
Etymology: rind (skin) + nosh (eat) + nervous + sounds like rhinoceros
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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Trepodation
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: trepädāshən
Sentence: Jan’s mom has some odd ideas about food. Just because she shopped at Whole Foods she thought you had to eat foods ”as is”. Peels, skins, rinds, and pods are not food in Jan’s opinion. It always left her with a sense of trepodation when Mom started to fix a meal. Last night? corn on the cob still in the husk. ”No shucking way”.
Etymology: trepidation (a feeling of fear or agitation about something that may happen) + pod (an elongated seed vessel of a leguminous plant such as the pea)
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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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.
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James