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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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Gashmandize
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: gash/man/dize
Sentence: She gashmandizes the roof of her mouth every time she pigs out on potato chips.
Etymology: gash + gormandize (gorge, binge,devour)
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COMMENTS:
Big congrats on getting your word published! You must be so proud of your proginese! - purpleartichokes, 2007-11-27: 20:17:00
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Mouthslaughter
Created by: youmustvotenato
Pronunciation: mouth slaughter
Sentence: Everytime I eat cap'n crunch, the cereal commits 3rd degree mouthslaughter.
Etymology: mouth + slaughter
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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Chipsplinter
Created by: contiki
Pronunciation: chip-splinter
Sentence: Ow! I just got a damn chipsplinter!
Etymology:
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.
Suppercut
Created by: looseball
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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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Shardpalate
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: SHAHRD-pal-luht
Sentence: Alex had to decline a kiss from his date, as he suffered a severe case of shardpalate from a bag of Fritos.
Etymology: shard + hard palate
Potatabrasion
Created by: LotusB
Pronunciation: Po-tay-tah-bray-sion
Sentence: Chowing down heavily on a family size bag of chips, and preoccupied by the awesomely terrible movie on TV, young Jenny must have munched too much - one got her right on the roof of her mouth! That Potatabrasion stayed sore all day! And I'm sure the salt didn't help, either!
Etymology: Potato + Abrasion + Potatabrasion
Shrillked
Created by: glamgal23
Pronunciation: Shrillk-ed
Sentence: Sharp foods will shrillk your tounge.
Etymology: Shrill high pitched tone and shreik a utter cry. The things that happens when you get shrillked.
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")
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by xirtam. Thank you xirtam! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by xirtam. Thank you xirtam. ~ James