Verboticism: Fregtimalaphobia
DEFINITION: n., The fear of eating the skins of fruits, vegetables, or small animals. v., To worry about saving one's skin while chewing on a rind, peel, or pelt.
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Skinskittish
Created by: LoftyDreamer
Pronunciation: skin + skittish
Sentence: The skinskittish children reluctantly ate the grapes, then finally accepted the fact that their purple mouths and hands would be with them for days.
Etymology: skin (the outer layer of an organism) + skittish (jumpy or jittery)
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COMMENTS:
Being skinskittish would cause them to have a great deal of skinsternation. - Mustang, 2008-09-08: 22:19:00
Kids like that would have Grape Expectations! - Nosila, 2008-09-09: 00:32:00
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Skintimidation
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: skin-tim-id-ay-shun
Sentence: The potato looked great inside, but the skintimidation proved too much for him, and he moved on to the peas and carrots.
Etymology: intimidation, skin
Circumskin
Created by: wordslikevenom
Pronunciation: Sir-cum-skin
Sentence: Time and time again, Quasimodo had been advised to circumskin the Ugli fruit. Alas, he did not know what 'fruit' meant.
Etymology: circumnavigate - to proceed completely around. Skin - the natural outer layer which covers a person, animal, fruit, etc.
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COMMENTS:
:) - Nosila, 2011-06-20: 18:37:00
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Agrowaphobia
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: ah + gro + ah + pho + bee + ah
Sentence: I know that's got lots of vitamins and all that, but I'm still not eating it because, frankly, it's yucky.
Etymology: agoraphobia but with "grow" in there.
Skinedible
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: skinedəbəl
Sentence: Ruby is afraid of any food that has an exterior that is different than its interior. She sees it as skinedible. To her, even skinadvertent skingestion of skin is skinappropriate. It gives her skindigestion. She won*t even drink hot chocolate that has started to cool.
Etymology: skin (the thin layer of tissue forming the natural outer covering of the body of a person or animal) + inedible (not fit to be eaten)
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COMMENTS:
good one! - mrskellyscl, 2010-02-03: 06:39:00
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Fearomembrane
Created by: aigle101
Pronunciation: fear-o-membrane
Sentence: noun;fear of any outer skin(membrane) whether refering to fruit ,vegetable or animal etc...;
Etymology: fear and membrane (outer skin or fur)
Rindossiferous
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Rind-ossifer-ous
Sentence: Betsy worried that her skin would crinkle and crack to the point that she became totally rindossiferous.
Etymology: Rind + ossify
Peelophobia
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: peel o fobe eya
Sentence: Jackie had a tremendous case of peelophobia. She could not bare to look at an orange rind, apple parings or a banana peel, never mind eat them. She could not even eat in a steakhouse, lest they serve potato skins. They did not appeel to her at all.
Etymology: Peel (the rind of a fruit or vegetable) & POhobia (Unnatural fear;an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things)
Neurosiderm
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: noo-roh-sih-durm
Sentence: Elodie's neurosiderm centered around eating pears. She'll never get over the time she ate one right before she presented at work in front of her team and bits of pear skin stuck to the roof of her mouth and on to her front teeth.
Etymology: neurosis + derma
Trepodation
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: trepädāshən
Sentence: Jan’s mom has some odd ideas about food. Just because she shopped at Whole Foods she thought you had to eat foods ”as is”. Peels, skins, rinds, and pods are not food in Jan’s opinion. It always left her with a sense of trepodation when Mom started to fix a meal. Last night? corn on the cob still in the husk. ”No shucking way”.
Etymology: trepidation (a feeling of fear or agitation about something that may happen) + pod (an elongated seed vessel of a leguminous plant such as the pea)
