Verboticism: Exscrapolate

'Why are you licking the wrapper?'

DEFINITION: v. tr., To secretly snap up and gobble down a small bit of food left on a dish, wrapping or pot. n., The small bits of tasty food, like melted cheese or veggies, that stick to food wrapping.

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Exscrapolate

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: ecks - skrap - oh - layt

Sentence: Though disgusting to those around her, one of Miranda's favorite habits was to exscrapolate bits of food from wrappers, bowls, even other peoples plates, leaving those items clean as a whistle and crumb free.

Etymology: Play on the word extrapolate, meaning to deal with food scraps of all kinds.

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Comments: Exscrapolate

Jabberwocky - 2008-08-28: 13:06:00
you could even stretch it to extrapoplate - nice word

Nosila - 2008-08-29: 00:34:00
Exscrambled eggs...

OZZIEBOB - 2008-08-30: 18:34:00
Very nice