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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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Regenerdysis
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: re/gen/er/dy/sis
Sentence: To maintain a youthful look in the 21st century, my anti-aging consultant and health specialist, recommends regenerdysis twice a year.
Etymology: regenerate + ecdysis (The shedding of an outer integument, or layer of skin)
Exfoliaged
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: ex-fol-ee-aged
Sentence: Instead of looking younger, Lucy's skin was so exfoliaged that she eventually started to look like an antique piece of leather, demonstrating the many years of sun-worshiping in her back yard.
Etymology: exfoliate: to remove layers of bark or skin;peel + foliage: leaves on plants and trees + aged: being of advanced age
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
Capitdermal
Created by: YourEnglishPal
Pronunciation: CAP-IT-DER-MAL
Sentence: She was afflicted with an unfortunate capitdermal.
Etymology: Capit-Head Der-skin Mal-Bad
Sunscales
Created by: tizher
Pronunciation:
Sentence: No matter how hard she tried, she could not hide her sunscales in the shadows.
Etymology:
Dermtend
Created by: InuYasha11
Pronunciation: Derm-tend
Sentence: Rebecca didn't put on sunscreen, resulting in her face to dermtend.
Etymology: derm-face tend-stretch
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"
Malanim
Created by: Sarai17spk
Pronunciation: mal-an-im
Sentence: i have a malanim about today.
Etymology: mal- bad anim- mind, feeling, life
Multitenutemperia
Created by: arandomperson97
Pronunciation: Mult-i-ten-u-tem-per
Sentence: person 1: my skin is peeling right off me! person 2: You have Multitenutemper then, go to the shade!
Etymology: multi- many tenu-stretched, thin (skin) temper-due season
Maltend
Created by: lulu78d
Pronunciation: mal-tend
Sentence: The older woman had to maltend the skin on her pale face.
Etymology: mal- bad tend- to stretch
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