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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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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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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
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)
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
Neurosiderm
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: noo-roh-sih-durm
Sentence: Elodie's neurosiderm centered around eating pears. She'll never get over the time she ate one right before she presented at work in front of her team and bits of pear skin stuck to the roof of her mouth and on to her front teeth.
Etymology: neurosis + derma
Dermaphobe
Created by: ajnemajrje
Pronunciation: der-mah-foh-b
Sentence: John has a fear of anything skinlike. He is a classic dermahobe.
Etymology: A play on germaphobe. a person who reacts to anything with a skin as if it is riddled with filth and bacteria.
Nonoutskined
Created by: klovezu
Pronunciation: non-out-skin'ed
Sentence: i will not eat that banana peal im a nonoutskined!
Etymology:
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.
Disskinbobulated
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: dis-skin-bob-yu-lay-ted
Sentence: the date was going well until he bought out some grapes that he had neglected to peel, and she suddenly felt completely disskinbobulated
Etymology: skin, discombobulated
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)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James