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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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Pointidbit
Created by: thegoatisbad
Pronunciation: poin-tid-bit
Sentence: Kimberly never bought rock candy without buying orajel or anbesol. She knew the sugary pointidbits would scrape their way across the roof of her mouth while she scarfed them down, but the sweet thorsels were too much to resist, so she tried only to alleviate the symptoms rather than prevent them. About the side effect: "Oh, it's the greatest tongue scrapper around" she explained to Zinnia while drooling blood, "it's done wonders for my breath."
Etymology: pointed (has a sharp point) + tidbit (small piece of a food)
Grazegraze
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: graysgrays
Sentence: Her grazegraze didn't bleed much, but it did stingle
Etymology: graze as in wound, graze as in eat all day
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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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)
Alivatar
Created by: simralotomy
Pronunciation: Aliv-va-tar
Sentence: I usually have an alivatar in summer holidays. Eating too many chips can be really painful sometimes
Etymology:
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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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)
Pringleate
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: pring ell ayte
Sentence: As an ER Resident, Dr. Pepper saw it all too often. Another patient who scoffed one too many salty sharp potato chip...someone who could pringleate herself in the blink of an eye. Sure, it started off innocently enough, entranced in a movie on the tv, jamming them into her mouth until she had Idahoed the roof of her mouth. Wine, beer and pop only caused greater burning and no relief. Only when the pain was unbearable had she headed for St. Dorito's Hospital to get first aid. Dr. Pepper swabbed her mouth with salve and sent her home. But he knew she would be back again sometime soon because they never learned. No, when the chips were down, she'd be back!
Etymology: Pringle (potato chip brand sold in cardboard tubes) & Lacerate (cut or tear irregularly;irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn)
Mouthslaughter
Created by: youmustvotenato
Pronunciation: mouth slaughter
Sentence: Everytime I eat cap'n crunch, the cereal commits 3rd degree mouthslaughter.
Etymology: mouth + slaughter
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by xirtam. Thank you xirtam! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by xirtam. Thank you xirtam. ~ James