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DEFINITION: v., To shed one's skin in an effort to appear younger or healthier. n. The little bits peeling skin caused by overexposure to direct sunlight.
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Cuteickle
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: kew-tick-al
Sentence: Melanie went for a cuteicure. She wanted to get that fresh appeeling look of a cuteickle that her teenage daughter naturally had.
Etymology: cuticle + cute + ick
Exfoolished
Created by: MrDave2176
Pronunciation: v: ex-FOOL-ishd n: ex-FOOL-ee-shed
Sentence: v.: Terri exfoolished with a cucumber herb peel that left her smelling like a salad dressing. n: Rodney's exfoolished from his sunburn was neatly stacked in piles sorted by size because of his rampant OCD.
Etymology: Exfoliate (to remove a layer of dead skin) + foolish + Shed
Tenudermal
Created by: nicolebolavage
Pronunciation: ten-u-derm-al
Sentence: She got a tenudermal in order to appear younger.
Etymology: tenu-stretch derm-skin mal-bad
Sloutting
Created by: frenchprof
Pronunciation: not unlike slutting but with slough and slut and ing
Sentence: Going sloutting again today?
Etymology: American English of tanning salons, slang. Comes from "slukt": "snaked of melingnoma"
Skinvigorate
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: skin-vig-or-ayt
Sentence: getting rid of my outer layer left me feeling skinvigorated
Etymology: skin, invigorate
Soleilskin
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: soh-lay-skin
Sentence: It was difficult to get optimal soleilskinning done during the winter months so she would schedule several trips to the Caribbean to make up for it.
Etymology: soleil (sun en francais)+ skin
Extremefoliate
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: ex-treem-fall-ee-ate
Sentence: The extremefoliator at the spa recommended that Jill should extremefoliate her skin monthly to retain that just boiled look.
Etymology: extreme + exfoliate
Huskiderm
Created by: Jenna
Pronunciation: huhsk-e-durm
Sentence: My mother went to the Spa for a HUSKIDERM, as she felt it give her a new glow. Two days after being burnt to a crisp by the sun, Sally was leaving bits of HUSKIDERM everywhere.
Etymology: Husk-Epidermis
Capitdermal
Created by: YourEnglishPal
Pronunciation: CAP-IT-DER-MAL
Sentence: She was afflicted with an unfortunate capitdermal.
Etymology: Capit-Head Der-skin Mal-Bad
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by MrDave2176, and inspired by the fact that I got a little sunburn yesterday -- even though it's September. Thank you MrDave2176! ~ James
rikboyee - 2007-09-17: 04:01:00
its a new one!! oh happy day!!!!
Today's definition was suggested by MrDave2176. Thank you MrDave2176. ~ James