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DEFINITION: n., A cut, or puncture wound on the roof of the mouth inflicted while consuming dangerously crunchy-sharp foods, like potato chips. v., To cut the roof your mouth while eating extra crispy snack foods.
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Piercemeal
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: PEERS-meel
Sentence: Bob's craving for kranskies in crusty rolls proved to be his 'pierce de resistance'. And, although, friends have told him that he's a bit prickadilly, he continues to piercemeal on this painful, panary prictual.
Etymology: Piercemeal: based on "piecemeal" & pierce. 2. Prickadilly: silly (slang) 3. Prictual (victual & prick).
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COMMENTS:
piercedprandial perforations punish painfully - petaj, 2007-11-27: 07:04:00
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Fritoslays
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: free to slays
Sentence: When she watches tv, Penenlope has to have salt and fat to intensify her programs. She loves murder mysteries and often fritoslays herself with sharp and salty foods. This is especially true while watching CS AyeAye and Hawaii Five Oh-Oh.
Etymology: Frito-Lays (large corporation who produce many types of snack foods) & Slays (kills intentionally, premeditated)
Fritolaceration
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: frē-tō-lās'ə-rā'shən
Sentence: When Joe suddenly felt a sharp pain and tasted blood in his mouth, he realized he had suffered a fritolaceration while pigging out on tortilla chips, and, needless to say, it ruined his appetite. It wasn't nearly as bad as the time he had pretzelgored himself though.
Etymology: Frito-Lay (formed by the merger of The Frito Company and H.W. Lay & Company, [North American snack food companies] 1961) + laceration - A jagged wound or cut (from Latin, lacerāre - "to tear up")
Fritoflay
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: frētōflā
Sentence: The public speaking teacher has heard almost every excuse possible, from family deaths to computer disasters. The latest is known as the Fritoflay syndrome, characterized by a lacerated tongue, cheeks and palate. The teacher does not allow this as a legitimate reason to delay a student’s speech unless they can prove it was not self-inflicted.
Etymology: Frito-Lay (Frito-Lay North America (FLNA) is a division of PepsiCo, Inc. which manufactures, markets and sells a variety of corn chips, potato chips and other snack foods) + flay (peel the skin off)
Snackgash
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: SNACK-gash
Sentence: Maxine couldn'r resist eating just one more potato chip- the kind with the specially designed abrasive ridges whose corrugated strength was allegedly able to withstand the heaviest loads of tangy dip. With a cold shriek Maxine bolted from the picnic area, clutching her wounded palate and pride, She had experienced the bane of hasty snackers...the SNACKGASH ! SNACKGASHING is believed to account for the statistically large increase in emergency room admissions each barbecue season, although, like cell-phone car crashes, few would actually admit it. The recommended treatment for SNACKGASHES is to avoid tailgate parties, convenience stores and company picnics for at least a month.
Etymology: SNACK:a light meal : food eaten between regular meals, usually salty but often hazardous;Middle English snak bite, from snaken to bite, perhaps from Middle Dutch snacken to snap at.....GASH:a deep long cut in flesh,a deep narrow depression or cut often self-inflicted through the careless use of snack foods.
Munchure
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: munk-chur
Sentence: I was munching on a tortilla chip. It was so sharp that it created a munchure wound.
Etymology: A combination of the word Munch (as in snack foods) and Puncture (as in a deep wound or cut)
Injuritos
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: injərdərētōs
Sentence: If I didn't know better i would think Matt was something of a masochist. Every time I see him he is munching on a bag of Injuritos. The full-size chips are bad enough but the shards in the bottom of the bag might as well be chunks of glass. The insidious part is that the company that makes these "shivs in a sack" has added an ingredient called nacho that numbs the palate so that the damage is hardly noticed.
Etymology: injured (harmed, damaged, or impaired) + Doritos (a popular brand of chips)
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COMMENTS:
nice one! - galwaywegian, 2008-10-23: 10:04:00
fantastic - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-23: 10:51:00
Damned clever! - metrohumanx, 2008-10-23: 17:14:00
Splendido! - Nosila, 2008-10-23: 20:35:00
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Pretzelesion
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: pret-zyl-LEE-zhun
Sentence: As was all too often the case, Mabel suffered a serious pretzelesion in the roof of her mouth from eating pretzel sticks carelessly.
Etymology: Blend of 'pretzel' and 'lesion' (wound or injury)
Pretzelaceration
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: pretzl-lass-er-AY-shun
Sentence: As was so often the case, Winifred suffered a serious pretzelaceration in the roof of her mouth from carelessly eating pretzel sticks too fast.
Etymology: Blend of pretzel and laceration
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COMMENTS:
great combo - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-23: 10:51:00
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Appeslicer
Created by: Mrgoodtimes
Pronunciation: Ap - pe - sly - cer
Sentence: Pablo's intensity with the jalepeno popper had turned it into an appeslicer. The problem was now figuring out if he was consuming cheese or blood.
Etymology: Appetiser - Slice
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by xirtam. Thank you xirtam! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by xirtam. Thank you xirtam. ~ James