Verboticisms

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: chipəngkchər

Sentence: Sam loves his tortilla snacks. What he doesn*t love is when he chipunctures the roof of his mouth with these insidious little shards of corn. Not only do they chipuncture the flesh, they immediately inject salt into the wound.

Etymology: chip (a thin slice of food made crisp by being fried, baked, or dried and typically eaten as a snack) + puncture (a small hole in something such as the skin, caused by a sharp object)

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Created by: wagabond

Pronunciation: crun(ch)/ k /(na)ture

Sentence: I got a cruncture from those nasty crips, and it really hurts.

Etymology: Crunch; puncture

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Created by: libertybelle

Pronunciation: free-toe-slay

Sentence: It wasn't bad enough that Josh got a severe fritoslay on the side of his lip, but then the salt from the chips he was eating just made matters worse.

Etymology: frito lay - popular chip brand + slay

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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)

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Created by: MithrilShadow

Pronunciation: ˈchip-ˈpəŋk-chər

Sentence: Jane had a rather embarrassing visit to the emergency room, for a rather nasty chipunture wound in her pallet.

Etymology: Chip: a small thin slice of food. Puncture: a hole, wound, or perforation made by puncturing.

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: spud/nik

Sentence: I had to give up eating potato chips because of the spudniks - either that or get a whole new red wardrobe.

Etymology: sputnik + spud + nick

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COMMENTS:

Nice one. Thinking of giving them up myself! - TJayzz, 2008-10-23: 13:04:00

Welcome to the Spice Age, comrade! - metrohumanx, 2008-10-23: 17:13:00

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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)

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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

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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)

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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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