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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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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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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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Spifoon

Created by: kateinkorea

Pronunciation: spi FOON

Sentence: A lot of young women at my university don’t like anyone to know that they smoke. These women sit on the toilet and smoke their cigarettes so no one can see them. Part of the spifoon ritual in their cubicle spittoons is to spit on the floor while they smoke. It is really gross and disgusting.

Etymology: BUFFOON: a gross and usually ill-educated or stupid person SPIT:

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COMMENTS:

Excellent word choice! Oh and about those washroom puffers, they're in denial; others will know they smoke even if they try to spit off the stench! - splendiction, 2009-03-12: 22:15:00

Terrific sentence and word. Agree with you and splendiction ... no matter how much they spit, kissing them would still be like cleaning out an ashtray! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-13: 19:18:00

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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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Audaspity

petaj

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: OR-DASS-pe-tee

Sentence: Boldrick had no shame. His audaspity frequently resulted in him being thrown out of parties, book groups, weddings and funerals by irate hosts still dripping with spittle.

Etymology: audacity (boldness) + spit (expel saliva and/or mucus)

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COMMENTS:

spot on! - Jabberwocky, 2009-03-12: 12:13:00

metrohumanx Funny yet revolting imagry. Good one! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-12: 16:40:00

metrohumanx Funny yet revolting imagry. Good one! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-12: 16:40:00

metrohumanx Well that was a strange reduplicomment! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-12: 16:40:00

petaj Jabber, should that be "spit on"? Metro, you are really spitting out comments there. - petaj, 2009-03-13: 06:10:00

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Spitosaurus

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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 Willard 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' (expectorate) and 'tune' (song or bit of music) Play on the word spittoon, a cuspidor

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Muculeptic

Created by: kalex

Pronunciation: m-yoo-ka-lep-tick

Sentence: My brother is a muculeptic, he spontaneously and perpetually spits all over the place.

Etymology: Muc-derived from mucus; leptic-to compulsively and persistently be afflicted VERB:Muculactate

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Spirettes

Created by: Menotyou

Pronunciation:

Sentence: He has a problem he always spits he has spirettes.

Etymology:

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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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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