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DEFINITION: v., To drop food on the floor, then pick it up and eat it, before anyone else can say "it's too dirty". n., A tasty treat which has been accidentally dropped, then quickly salvaged and savored.
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Foodianslip
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: food/ee/an/slip
Sentence: At the party, Joe just reacted with another foodianslip when he dropped his cake and then immediately proceeded to get down on all-fours to lick the icing off the rug.
Etymology: FOODIANSLIP - noun - FOOD + FREUDIAN SLIP
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COMMENTS:
Good one - OZZIEBOB, 2008-10-01: 18:15:00
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Dingegestion
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: din-jest-shun
Sentence: Marc thought that Cheese-It's tasted a little better after he dingegested them off of his grandma's shag carptet, shouting 5-second rule.
Etymology: dinge + ingestion
Putrilapiglop
Created by: tehbeks
Pronunciation: pyoo treh lah peh glawp
Sentence: MMMMM... Putrilapiglop! I better dive fast before anyone else sees it! That's disgusting. Why does Ted always putrilapiglap everything that spills?
Etymology: putrid lap (i.e. in how dogs drink water) glop
Terraprehendive
Created by: aayeye
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Madge was stunned when her terraprehendive blind date started licking up the tapioca he spilled on the floor.
Etymology: Terra= Earth Prehend= to grab Dive= as in to dive to the ground. Also: Terra+endive Earth lettuce
Lineoleyum
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: lin o lee yum
Sentence: Barry hated to waste food. He did not know why, but if it fell on the floor, it tasted a bit better. It was embarrassing to go anywhere with him, as he devoured this lineoleyum no matter who was watching...it was even more embarrassing when he did it at his wife's boss's parties!
Etymology: Linoleum (floor covering) & Yum (exclamation when something looks/tastes delicious)
Floorfeastishism
Created by: November
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Barbara had to realize that Ben was neither into her new red Manolos nor her well pedicured feet, but was suffering from a bad case of FloorFeastishism.
Etymology: Floor + Feast; • verb 1 have a feast. 2 (feast on) eat large quantities of. — PHRASES feast one’s eyes on gaze at with pleasure. — ORIGIN Latin festa, from festus ‘joyous’. + Fetish/Fetishism; a form of sexual desire in which gratification is focused abnormally on an object, part of the body, or activity
Graviteat
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: grav it eet
Sentence: It got to be too much for Julie. Taking her partner Matt out to trendy cocktail parties and other social outings were too embarrassing for her. You see, Matt would graviteat anything that he "accidentally" dropped on the ground. The first ten or twenty times it happened one could put down to clumsiness. But it now became apparent to Julie that he was doing it on purpose. He finally admitted to her that he loved to floorage for food...it somehow tasted better to him. She would have to find him a support group, like Parqueteaters Anonymous or ThirsaTiles or LinoleYum or Carpet Consumers and their Underlaying Causes. If she didn't, there would be no Welcome, Matt.
Etymology: Gravity (The force of attraction between the Earth's mass for bodies near its surface) & Gravitate (be attracted to;move toward) & Eat (consume food)
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COMMENTS:
Welcome Matt ! Love it. VERY satisfying microstory, Nosila. :) - metrohumanx, 2008-09-30: 14:21:00
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Antipastogen
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: an/ti/pah/stoh/jen
Sentence: Antipasto off the plate, or antipastogen off the floor, it didn't bother Tommy. It was FOOD!
Etymology: antipasto + pathogen (bacteria)
Antipastogen
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: an/ti/pah/stoh/jen
Sentence: Antipasto off the plate, or antipastogen off the floor, it didn't bother Tommy. It was FOOD!
Etymology: antipasto + pathogen (bacteria)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you again remistram! ~ James
mplsbohemian - 2007-10-11: 22:57:00
There are a LOT of good words today!
Yes lots of floordoeuvres for thought. Tasty too! Even if they are all full of antipastogens. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James