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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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Mongualed
Created by: Lyokia
Pronunciation: Mon-gualed
Sentence: She just mongualed the messy eater in the room.
Etymology: From Motion, tongue and signal.
Morselcode
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: mor-sul-cohd
Sentence: i was saved from embarrasment by a nice piece of morselcode from my sister
Etymology: morsel, morse code
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COMMENTS:
Perfect! - purpleartichokes, 2007-11-01: 04:43:00
Hope you repaid your sister with a diamante brooch or similar siBling! - galwaywegian, 2007-11-01: 07:58:00
SOS - stop our slob? - heartnsoul, 2007-11-01: 08:25:00
Brilliant! - Domhain, 2007-11-01: 09:25:00
ah - Inspector Morselcode no doubt - Jabberwocky, 2007-11-01: 10:50:00
Simply the best! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-01: 20:48:00
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Chewclue
Created by: Lidipop
Pronunciation: tch-ew-k-lou
Sentence: Why didn't you tell me i had food on my face?... Sweety, I tried to give you a "Chewclue" but you thought i was saying "Love you" :)
Etymology: Chew(act of crushing food) + clue(hint)
Gestrickle
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Jes-trik-ul
Sentence: Hoping to silently alert Phil to the jelly around his mouth from the doughnut Mildred gave him a quick gestrickle.
Etymology: Gesture + trickle
Facesavory
Created by: Domhain
Pronunciation: face-savory
Sentence: Exhibiting top notch facesavory, Linda saved Jim from an embarrassing moment before his other coworkers noticed that he had delicious frosting all over his soul patch.
Etymology: Face - front of human head Savory - delicious food
Gesticulcake
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: jest/ik/ul/cake
Sentence: I licked off all my lipstick trying to get rid of an unidentifiable crumb only to discover that it was the person behind me who my friend was gesticulcaking at.
Etymology: gesticulate + cake
Orthocue
Created by: Kevcom
Pronunciation: aor-tho-ku
Sentence: "She opened her lips and I thought she was going to kiss me! Instead she was moving her toung side-to-side in a delibarate act of orthocuation because I had food on my cheeks. Perhaps after my face was clean, she would kiss me."
Etymology: ortho (mouth) + cue (gesture)
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)
Elimaphore
Created by: milorush
Pronunciation: (n., v. intr.) ĭ-lĭm''ə-fōr'
Sentence: Megan used elimapore to indicate the cheesecake blot on her boss's lips, but he only thought she was coming on to him.
Etymology: elim[inate] + semaphore
Gresticulate
Created by: Carlyumz
Pronunciation: gress-tick-u-late
Sentence: Despite my many attempts to gresticulate, Frank was still oblivious to the piece of mint sauce hanging precariously from his nose.
Etymology: Grub(food) + Gesticulate(to signal)
Comments:
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Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James