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DEFINITION: v. intr., To silently signal the position of a piece of food on a person's face using hand gestures, facial expressions and tonguing motions. n., A nonverbal communication system used to alert and assist diners with food on their faces.
Verboticisms
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Souperpoke
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: super-poke
Sentence: Despite her expansive souperpokes Manny persisted conversing with the dribble of pumpkin soup glistening in his beard.
Etymology: soup + poke + superpoke (Facebook users know about this)
Crumaphore
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹʌməˌfɔɹ/
Sentence: My crumaphore skills were rusty, and I wasn't quite sure if my girlfriend was signaling that I had a bit of sauce just below and to the left of my left nostril or if I had a pickle wedged in my ear.
Etymology: from crumb + semaphore
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COMMENTS:
Man, I hate when I get ear pickles. - purpleartichokes, 2007-11-01: 16:23:00
What?! Speak up! I can't hear you because there's a pickle in my ear! - ErWenn, 2007-11-01: 22:56:00
Classic! - Tigger, 2007-11-06: 17:13:00
I think having a pickle wedged in your ear should be a verbotomy definition.... - yellowbird, 2007-11-08: 14:48:00
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Particlepantomime
Created by: svnfsvn
Pronunciation: particle pant imime
Sentence: particlepantimime did the trick,no one else noticed his face at the wine tastingparty.
Etymology:
Warnify
Created by: FreakoSpeako
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I see my dad with all this food on his face so I had to warnify him.
Etymology:
Digesticulate
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: die jest ick ewe late
Sentence: He mistook her digesticulations for a desire to lick his face. Why he should have acted on instinct at this point, when he had never had a trustworthy hunch in his life was extraordinary, but not nearly as extraordinary as the ensuing violence.
Etymology: digest, gesticulate, as in gesticulate to someone that they should digest the food they're wearing.
Facefoodgesting
Created by: kimbo123
Pronunciation:
Sentence: sarah tried facefoodgesting tom, but he had no clue.
Etymology:
Mongualed
Created by: Lyokia
Pronunciation: Mon-gualed
Sentence: She just mongualed the messy eater in the room.
Etymology: From Motion, tongue and signal.
Stupartfart
Created by: blackkittynili
Pronunciation: stu-part-fart
Sentence: stupartfart stop it
Etymology:
Jesture
Created by: Justpeachyy
Pronunciation: Jest ture
Sentence: Thanks for the jesture, you saved me from a huge amount embarrassment!
Etymology: devrived from gesture, however.. saving you from a jester appearance.
Cuisign
Created by: xirtam
Pronunciation: kwi-sahyn
Sentence: Bill tactfully tried using cuisign language to signal to his date that she had a bit of green beans stuck between her front teeth.
Etymology: Cuisine: Latin; coquīna + Sign: Latin; signum
Comments:
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Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James