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DEFINITION: v. To expectorate unexpectedly, especially in situations where it is not considered socially acceptable. n. A person who habitually spits, even when among polite company.

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Vesuviyuck

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: vess oooooooooooooo veeeeeeee uk!

Sentence: Alarmed at the sound of the vesuviyucking coming from the kitchen of Metro's Mouthwatering Diner, she decided against ordering the green salad.

Etymology: vesuvius as in volcano, yuck as in yuck

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with the special dressing - Jabberwocky, 2009-03-12: 12:17:00

how clever to relate such unwelcome eruptions - Super Create! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-12: 13:55:00

metrohumanx NO SOUP FOR YOU!........next! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-12: 16:46:00

She should ve-sue-vious them! Good word! - Nosila, 2009-03-12: 20:20:00

I'm never eating out again. - Mustang, 2009-03-13: 06:07:00

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Horkiculture

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: hor/ki/cul/ture

Sentence: Sam worked in a lab which always turned out inaccurate results due to his horkiculture.

Etymology: hork + horticulture + culture (as in lab specimen)

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COMMENTS:

petaj your word reminds me of something green, and it's growing on me. ERK. - petaj, 2009-03-13: 06:18:00

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Mucustomer

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: mew/cus/tu/mur

Sentence: Sally looked out the window in dismay as she saw Mrs. Smith heading toward her fine linen shop. Mrs. Smith was such a mucustomer that she had become a liability.

Etymology: mucus + customer

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COMMENTS:

clever! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-12: 14:16:00

metrohumanx Very ominous vignette. We like! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-12: 16:38:00

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Spitosaurus

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: spit-uh-sawr-uhs

Sentence: The staff of the retirement home were finally able to track down their resident spitosaurus. They followed the trail of brown-tinted phlegm globs to the room of a retired baseball pitcher, Johnny "Spitball" Johnson. Apparently a family member had given him a gift of chewing tobacco.

Etymology: spit (to eject saliva from the mouth; expectorate) + saurus (lizard: used to form the scientific names of certain genera of reptiles/dinosaurs)

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Spittune

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: spit-TOON

Sentence: Whether or not it was intentional no one knew, but folks did know a conversation with Reginald may well result in them being plastered with his dinner, his drinks or just his spittle and behind his back folks referred to his conversation as a spittune as the 'punctuations' of spittle resembled the beat of uptempo music.

Etymology: Blend of spit and tune, play on the word spittoon, a nickname for a cuspidor.

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COMMENTS:

very funny - Jabberwocky, 2009-03-12: 12:15:00

metrohumanx Hahahaha! STRIKE HIM ! VERY ROUGHLY! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-12: 16:35:00

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Inhospittable

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: in hoss pit abel

Sentence: anyone that inhospittable was always going to end up in hospittle

Etymology: inhospitable spit

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Malapropel

metrohumanx

Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: mahl-APP-row-PELL (malapropeller)

Sentence: Hank was quite gross in his youth- and now he's so crude and uncouth. He hacked up some moisture- and launched a thick oyster- so hard it included his tooth. Yes, Hank the Skank would belittle- all those who would swallow their spittle- For him it was sport- to land one in the port- We hope that he gags on a Skittle. (Hank was a MALAPROPELLER of the worst kind. An unrepentant DISGUSTOLAUNCHER, he would decorate the sidewalk with loathome lung by-products, repellent dollops of drool and vulgar volumes of vile vapours, too.)

Etymology: MALAPROpos+proPEL= MALAPROPEL.....MALAPROPOS: in an inappropriate or inopportune way; French mal à propos (1668).....PROPEL: to drive forward or onward by or as if by means of a force that imparts motion;Middle English propellen, from Latin propellere, from pro- before + pellere to drive.

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metrohumanx Ptyalize expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth - metrohumanx, 2009-03-12: 16:31:00

Metrohumanx, I was imagining the graphic details as I read your sentence :)~ EWWW WEEE Old Hank is one Malapropel type Fella! I just hope he doesn't smoke as he starts to choke and fling out something YELLOW! (GOOD one!) - abrakadeborah, 2009-03-12: 21:05:00

excellent create! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-13: 10:14:00

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Horkule

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: hork yewl

Sentence: Her blind date turned out to be a mystery date, especially after he covered her in his trachial fluids. He was none other than Horkule Poirot and her little grey cells wished she had never agreed to this outing.

Etymology: Hork (to release phlegm from nose or throat)& Hercule Poirot (Agatha Christie's fictional Belgian Detective)

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Spitalkquelate

Created by: abrakadeborah

Pronunciation: spi-talk-q-late

Sentence: Tony is a non-stop babbling kind of guy that while he is so into saying a lot about nothing, the "spitalkquelate" flies all over Mary's new red dress she is fumming! Tony can't slow down his constant "Spitalkquelating" and soon Mary's chin starts to drip. She is becoming more angry the longer the "Spitalkquelation" of Tony's garlic infused "Spitalkquelate" is spewed on her face. She finally has had all she can stand! So she tells Tony,"Ya know Tony,you are an obnoxious spitalkquelating fool, I have had all I can stand of your nonstop spewing spit all over me!"

Etymology: Spit; to expectorate saliva out of your mouth. talk; to speak. quelate;letting spit fly out of your mouth! Spitalkquelates ; the act of continuing the spitting. Spitalkquelation ; being spat upon repetitively.

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metrohumanx Spitalkquelate has a nice "bounce" to it! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-12: 16:43:00

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Salivationarmy

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: sali vay shun armee

Sentence: When Judy Drench went out for dinner with Rudy B. Havior, she did not understand that she would be dating the salivationarmy. Rudy shlurped and shpittled his way through the meal. By the end of the evening, she was a human spittoon. Judy had more DNA samples on her than a CSI lab.

Etymology: Salivation (the secretion of saliva) & play on Salvation Army (a charitable and religious organization to evangelize and to care for the poor and homeless)

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:D - galwaywegian, 2010-09-23: 14:26:00

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-03-12: 00:01:01
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James

galwaywegian - 2009-03-12: 06:39:00
sometimes I worry about metrohumanx :)

mweinmann - 2009-03-12: 16:08:00
This definition really caused me to chuckle....you see, I actually met someone last week who actually did this!!

splendiction - 2009-03-12: 22:13:00
The words today are hilarious and disgusting at the same time - oh, another definition!

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2010-09-23: 00:06:00
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James