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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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Prangle
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: pran ggel
Sentence: she prangled herself with the sour cream and onion flavours and caused third degree burns to the wound with the chili dip.
Etymology: pringle, prang.
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COMMENTS:
sounds painful - Jabberwocky, 2007-11-27: 11:33:00
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Pretzelpuncture
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Pret + zel + punct + sure
Sentence: Absentmindedly gobbling his pretzel snack, the sharp pain in the roof of his mouth told Delbert that he'd just given himself a pretzelpuncture.
Etymology: Pretzel + puncture
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COMMENTS:
I know from experience that this can and does happen. - Mustang, 2007-11-27: 03:58:00
Watch out that it doesn't develop into a chewma (chew + trauma + tumour) - petaj, 2007-11-27: 07:05:00
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Potatoclip
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: poh-tay-toh-clip
Sentence: My mouth had just recovered from a Fritolesion when I suffered a potatoclip. If I didn't stop being an ouchpotato, I'd continue to get these painful foodboos.
Etymology: potato chip, clip (gash)
Shreddedeats
Created by: Nuwanda
Pronunciation: sh-red-ed-eets
Sentence: Allison loved Cap'n Crunch, but couldn't help compulsively running her tongue over the shreddedeats the cereal inevitably left behind.
Etymology: shredded wheat altered to emphasize "eat"
Taytohs
Created by: suzanne
Pronunciation: Tay-toes
Sentence: In her lust for salty favour she gave herself tayohs.
Etymology: Tayto- the most beloved brand of crispsin my native land. oh -expression of surprise/ pain
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")
Carnoral
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: karn-awr-uhl
Sentence: His carnoral was so severe that he made an appointment to see his dentist hoping for a shot of novocaine.
Etymology: carnage + oral
Suppercut
Created by: looseball
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
like it! - galwaywegian, 2007-11-27: 08:04:00
I get suppercuts sometimes from hard bread or pizza crust. Good one! - Tigger, 2007-11-28: 13:58:00
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Chiprip
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: chip/rip
Sentence: The tasty pleasure of eating sour cream and onion potato chips goes out the window when you painfully chiprip the roof of your mouth.
Etymology: CHIPRIP - verb - from CHIPS as in potato chips) + RIP (to cut, or tear apart in a rough, or vigorous manner)
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COMMENTS:
Good one! - Mustang, 2008-10-23: 07:10:00
Been there, done that...good word! - Nosila, 2008-10-23: 20:34:00
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Bitefight
Created by: jkernen1
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Those pringles looked good, but my mouth couldn't afford another bitefight.
Etymology: bite + fight
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by xirtam. Thank you xirtam! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by xirtam. Thank you xirtam. ~ James